How to call an external webservice in asp.net MVC

Question

I want to call an external webservice. How do I do this in an asp.net mvc program? What options do I have. Does anyone have an example?

Thanks.

Does the service exist already, or you are trying to create the service as well? — Jay, Jan 25 '10 at 17:03
Is "Basic XML question" really a good summary of this question? — Joachim Sauer, Jan 25 '10 at 17:31
My fault, thought you meant you wanted to implement it in asp.net-mvc — Yuriy Faktorovich, Jan 26 '10 at 15:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 25 '10 at 17:03

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check out this article if you're calling your web service client side using jQuery.

It's done with JSON, but you could get XML by changing the dataType parameter to dataType: "xml" or not including it all as it is the default.

If you're doing it server side check out this article. It's VB.Net but you can easily translate it to C#

I hope this helps.

answered Jan 25 '10 at 17:03

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Yes I am looking for an mvc solution. – Joe Jan 26 '10 at 13:05

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 26 '10 at 13:07

You call an external webservice in an ASP.NET MVC application the same way you call it in any .NET application. If it is a SOAP based service you generate a proxy class using svcutil.exe, if the service uses some proprietary XML you may need to resort to HttpWebRequest.

How to call an external webservice in asp.net MVC

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