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[Glen Wilkin via DotNetMonster.com]

I want to be able to switch between a local test Web Service and a server
based live Web Service.
When testing numerous web forms I need to switch their Web service reference
between a local development service and the live one.
At the moment this involves replacing the declaration 'TestWebService' with
'LiveWebService' in each form.
What I would like to do is have a utilities class that has a static function
that returns a reference to the appropriate web service depending upon a key
in web.config.
I would be able to do this if I knew how to declare the return value of the
function:

internal ???????? GetWebService()
{
string lstrWebService = ConfigurationSettings.AppSetting["WebService"].
ToString();
if(lstrWebService == "Test")
{
return ????????;
}
else
{
return ????????;
}
}

Anyone know what the ?????????s should be or if what I want is not possible.


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[Henrik Gøttig]

Glen Wilkin via DotNetMonster.com wrote:

> I want to be able to switch between a local test Web Service and a server
> based live Web Service.
> When testing numerous web forms I need to switch their Web service reference
> between a local development service and the live one.
> At the moment this involves replacing the declaration 'TestWebService' with
> 'LiveWebService' in each form.
> What I would like to do is have a utilities class that has a static function
> that returns a reference to the appropriate web service depending upon a key
> in web.config.
> I would be able to do this if I knew how to declare the return value of the
> function:
>
> internal ???????? GetWebService()
> {
> string lstrWebService = ConfigurationSettings.AppSetting["WebService"].
> ToString();
> if(lstrWebService == "Test")
> {
> return ????????;
> }
> else
> {
> return ????????;
> }
> }
>
> Anyone know what the ?????????s should be or if what I want is not possible.
>
>

Hi Glen

From what I gather, you actually want to change the endpoint of the
service. I assume that the two services share the exact same "contract".
On the generated WS proxy you can change the URL behaviour property to
"Dynamic". With this, you can change the URL (endpoint) in code, by
setting the property on the WS proxy.

If you wish you can encapsulate this in your own utility class,
replacing the ?????? with the correct configured (right URL endpoint) WS
proxy.

Regards

Henrik
[url]http://websolver.blogspot.com[/url]

[Glen Wilkin via DotNetMonster.com]

Thanks Henrik

Sorry to be such a fool, I should have realised that.
I only need one WS referenced and change its URL as appropriate, as you say;
all I need to do is ensure they both meet the same 'contract'.

Henrik Gøttig wrote:

>> I want to be able to switch between a local test Web Service and a server
>> based live Web Service.

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>>
>> Anyone know what the ?????????s should be or if what I want is not possible.

>
>Hi Glen
>
> From what I gather, you actually want to change the endpoint of the
>service. I assume that the two services share the exact same "contract".
>On the generated WS proxy you can change the URL behaviour property to
>"Dynamic". With this, you can change the URL (endpoint) in code, by
>setting the property on the WS proxy.
>
>If you wish you can encapsulate this in your own utility class,
>replacing the ?????? with the correct configured (right URL endpoint) WS
>proxy.
>
>Regards
>
>Henrik
>[url]http://websolver.blogspot.com[/url]

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