>Kevin,
>
>You can access the web reference directly, as in Viv's example, but we use a Web Service factory class for one simple reason:
>
>When you add a web reference to your project, the actual URL to that reference gets stored. At runtime, you may have a need to change that to something else (something you may have stored in a config file perhaps). When you instantiate the Web Service via a factory class, you can set the URL at runtime.
>
>
>public class WebServiceFactory
>{
> // the default URL
> private static string m_url = "http://localhost/webservices.myapp/";
>
> public static SoapHttpClientProtocol GetWebService(SoapHttpClientProtocol ws)
> {
> string url = ws.Url.ToLower();
> string newurl = this.MyMethodToGetURLFromConfig();
> if (newurl.Length == 0 || newurl.ToLower().Trim() == m_url)
> {
> return ws;
> }
> else
> {
> ws.Url = url.Replace(m_url, newurl);
> return ws;
> }
> }
>>
>And you use it like this:
>
>
>// declaration
>private MyApp.PersonnelWS.Personnel oWS;
>
>// instantiation
>this.oWS = (MyApp.PersonnelWS.Personnel)WebServiceFactory.GetWebService(new MyApp.PersonnelWS.Personnel());
>
>// use as any other class method call
>string XML = this.oWS.GetPersonnel(MyKey);
>
Hi Bonnie,
The default URL is stored in the applicationsettings of the relevant config file and loaded from there anyway. Why not just change that entry directly?
Regards,
Viv
