Get SOAP request in C#

Question

In my console application I added a service reference to http://www.ibanbic.be/IBANBIC.asmx . The operations in it I need to use.

Now, this is my little piece of code, and from what I saw in tutorials, this should be enough to connect to it and get a value. But the only value I get is "String is Empty".

using (BANBICSoapClient WebService = new BANBICSoapClient())
{
string bban = "*****";
   try
   {
      string resultIban = WebService.BBANtoIBAN(bban);
      if (resultIban != string.Empty)
      {
         Console.WriteLine(resultIban);
      }
      else
      {
         Console.WriteLine("String is empty.");
      }
   }
   catch(Exception msg)
   {
      Console.WriteLine(msg);
   }
}
Console.ReadLine();

Can anyone give me some more information about what is wrong?

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/q/16062767/969613) may help. — JMK, Oct 09 '13 at 09:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '13 at 09:09

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Are you passing a valid BBAN or just the string of asterixes? Do you have a sample of valid data?

Calling the web service with data I just mocked up, e.g. (12345, *) looks to return an empty string, so that's what it might return in the event of invalid data.

answered Oct 09 '13 at 09:09

Jazzy J

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No, I'm passing a valid BBAN in my code.. I pass this string: 428608677145 – Matheno Oct 09 '13 at 09:09
Try 510-0075470-61 as the BBAN and this should return a correct value. – Jazzy J Oct 09 '13 at 09:11
Passing in 428608677145 manually doesn't look to return anything. – Jazzy J Oct 09 '13 at 09:14

Get SOAP request in C#

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