I would like to consume a Soap Service provided by DHL. You can find the wsdl here: https://wsbexpress.dhl.com/sndpt/expressRateBook?WSDL
Therefore I created a new ClassLibrary in Visual Studio 2015 targeting .net framework 4.5.
Then I added a Web Reference to the created project by providing the wsdl address. I generated a proxy file with all types and ports in it but my first problem is, that the generated Service extends from System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol
. As I read in recent posts it is not possible to get the wsse header to that proxy. Some posts advise to add wse but it seems wse is not supported by newer Visual Studio versions.
I tried to generate my proxy by svcutil. After that I added the generated .cs file to the project and copied the content of the generated config file to app.config. (of cause I removed the web reference)
Now the Service class extends System.ServiceModel.ClientBase
. (I thought the generator in VS uses svctool internally. If microsoft want people to use wcf why does the generator generate non-wcf proxy files.
I also created a nunit testproject which should test my service, but If I use the version with the svcutil generated version I get an error. I try to translate it to english as the error is displayed in german:
Could not find a default endpoint element which points to the service contract. As I figured out this is because the proxy is in its own class library and therefor doesn't really have an app.config. But my test project is a class library too.
What would be the actual way to consume a web service which needs ws security Username/Password auth these days?