Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Listing 11-7 An application using a Web service

334Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide

This example shows that the proxy will translate the results into a List<Customer> (List(Of Customer) in VB). While I showed you how to make this setting after creating the Web service, I chose this sequence because it shows the value of changing the collection return type. However, you can make this setting when first creating the Web reference. Looking at Figure 11-11, you can see an Advanced button at the bottom of the Add Service Reference window. Clicking the Advanced button will show you the Service Reference Settings window, shown in Figure 11-13, allowing you to set the collection return type when first creating the service reference.

Now, you’ve seen all five operations of the Web service. Remember that exactly the same techniques are used here as in any other type of .NET application. For your convenience, Listing 11-7 shows you the entire example for using a Web service.

Listing 11-7 An application using a Web service

C#:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using CustomerConsole.CustomerService;

namespace CustomerConsole

{

class Program

{

static void Main()

{

var svc = new CustomerServiceClient();

var newCust = new Customer

{

Age = 36,

Birthday = new DateTime(1974, 8, 22), Income = 56000m,

Name = "Venus"

};

var newCustID = svc.InsertCustomer(newCust);

Console.WriteLine("New Customer ID: " + newCustID);

Customer cust = svc.GetCustomer(newCustID);