how to connect web services

Question

Hai,

i am developing an windows8 app. Here my question is i am having some web services, how can i use this web services to my application.

Answer 1

Use Add Service Reference in the Project Explorer (context menu on References), enter URI and VS will create classes you can use to communicate with the service.

Answer 2

Thank you..

this answer helps me alot. can you suggest me any sample or any example so that i can make use of this in my application.

Answer 3

Search the samples maybe there's something. But it's rather simple. You should know what you want, what endpoints the service has, etc. I use the following in my project for a WCF service. You need to create a binding and an address manually. You create an instance of your service and use it and then close it when you are done with it. It's just a fragment, but it should be self-explanatory.

        private static System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding GetBindingForEndpoint(Properties settings)
        {
            System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding result = new System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding();
            result.MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue;
            result.ReaderQuotas = System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max;
            result.MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue;
            result.AllowCookies = true;
            result.OpenTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2);
            result.TextEncoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
            result.TransferMode = System.ServiceModel.TransferMode.Streamed;
            if (settings.SecureConnection)
            {
                result.Security.Mode = System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport;
            }
            else
            {
                result.Security.Mode = System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpSecurityMode.None;
            }
            return result;
        }

        private static System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress GetEndpointAddress(Properties settings)
        {
            string uri;
            if (settings.SecureConnection)
                uri = string.Format("https://{0}/Pflege/ServicePflegeMobile.svc/safe", settings.Server);
            else
                uri = string.Format("http://{0}/Pflege/ServicePflegeMobile.svc/ServicePflegeMobile.svc", settings.Server);
            return new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress(uri);
        }

                var service = new sage200pflegeservicemobileClient(GetBindingForEndpoint(Settings), GetEndpointAddress(Settings));
                var info = await service.DoSomethingAsync();