How to use SOAP in Windows 8.1 apps and in Windows Phone 8 apps?

Question

Is there some methods to create SOAP-requests and to get SOAP-responses in .net-4.5? Which extentions I should to install, if it's necessary?

Answer 1

You can use SOAP services via the "Add Service Reference" function in Visual Studio. Behind the scenes, this will call svcutil to convert the .wsdl into .cs service prototypes.

The .Net Framework includes both WCF, which is the newer and recommended network communication framework, as well as .Net Remoting, which is more compatible with some non-.Net SOAP endpoints.

See

• Introduction to WCF (MSDN)
• This answer to a similar question addressing WCF from a SOAP perspective
• Walkthrough: Creating and accessing WCF Services (MSDN)
• what is WSDL URI in WCF?
• Adding Custom [SOAP] MessageHeaders to a WCF Call (MSDN Blog)

Example

For the service located at http://www.webservicex.net/currencyconvertor.asmx?WSDL:

• Generate the client proxy
  svcutil http://www.webservicex.net/currencyconvertor.asmx?WSDL
• Rename the config produced
  move output.config program.exe.config
• Create a test client:

Program.cs:

using System;
using www.webservicex.net;

class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var client = new CurrencyConvertorSoapClient("CurrencyConvertorSoap");
        var conv = client.ConversionRate(Currency.USD, Currency.EUR);
        Console.WriteLine("Conversion rate from USD to EUR is {0}", conv);
    }
}

• Compile
  csc Program.cs CurrencyConvertor.cs
• Run:
  c:\Drop\soaptest>Program.exe
Conversion rate from USD to EUR is 0.7221