Consuming Web Services Without Proxy Class (.Net)

stevenmu

I have to sync some data between a laptop and a PDA. The easiest way to do it seems to be to run a web service on the laptop and use it to pass datasets between them. This is simple enough, but because I need the code to run on different laptop/pda pairs, and I'd like the flexibility to easily change either the service or the PDA, I don't want to have to go through a proxy class hardcoded for a particular service.

Anybody know an easy way in .Net to dynamically consume a web service without having to construct all the HTTP GET/POST requests and parse the responses myself ?

(I've been looking through the Discovery namespace, but not made much sense of it so far)

Smoggy

I think you need to look into "loosely coupled webservices"

maybe :

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=61903B0B-61ED-4ADF-9EAA-19D91568A387&displaylang=en

edit :

Possible solution :
Webservice on the laptops called say : PDA_SYNC
Service on the PDA (presuming the PDA handles services) that is checking for cradle connection.
Call the webservice via http://localhost/PDA_SYNC/Service1.asmx

vladibo

Check this
http://blog.bodurov.com/Create-a-WCF-client-for-asmx-web-service-without-using-web-proxy

Ginger

Or use Live Mesh .. orthe Sync Framework