ASP.NET MVC 3 and WSE 2.0

Question

I've an ASP.NET MVC 3 project and have been tasked with implementing a few UI controls. I need to call a few web services and bind the data to the UI controls. The problem is the web services host (we have no control over them) requires me to first implement a UsernameToken class (WSE 2.0) to authenticate the user and generate a security token. I understand WSE 2.0 is superceded by WCF in 2006. I don't want to switch back to VS 2005 to be able to use WSE 2.0. What are my options?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I'm afraid the approach Darin Dimitrov didn't work. What I have ultimately done is installed WSE 2.0, then added dll reference to Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll found in the WSE installtion directory (c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft WSE\v2.0\Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll). I also modified the Reference.cs file of the service to inherit from Microsoft.Web.Services2.WebServicesClientProtocol. I was able to find the UsernameToken class and able to authenticate successfully.

I'm not an expert in this area so I'm not sure if this is the correct way of doing this, but it worked nonetheless.

Answer 2

Just add a Service Reference to your ASP.NET MVC application and point it to the web service WSDL. This will generate a strongly typed WCF client which is compatible with WSE. Here's an article which covers the different interoperability scenarios