Client in .NET

From Section 7.2 of the book

This example shows how to write a .NET client for the TimeService.

client/NetClient/NetClient.cs

using System;
using TimeClient; // namespace of the generated proxy

public class NetClient {
  public static void Main(string[] args) {
    TimeService service = new TimeService();
    Console.WriteLine("The time on the server is: ");
    string time = service.GetTime();
    Console.WriteLine(time);
  }
}

The class NetClient uses the proxy TimeClient.TimeService to call GetTime. This proxy is stored in the file TimeServiceProxy.cs and was generated with the tool wsdl.exe using the following command:

client/NetClient/genproxy.bat

wsdl /namespace:TimeClient /out:TimeServiceProxy.cs 
http://dotnet.jku.at/book/samples/7/simple/TimeService.asmx

The generated proxy has methods for calling the web service synchronously (GetTime()) and asynchronously (BeginGetTime() and EndGetTime()):

client/NetClient/TimeServiceProxy.cs

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 
//     This code was generated by a tool.
//     Runtime Version: 1.0.3705.209
//
//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if 
//     the code is regenerated.
// 
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// 
// This source code was auto-generated by wsdl, Version=1.0.3705.209.
// 
namespace TimeClient {
    using System.Diagnostics;
    using System.Xml.Serialization;
    using System;
    using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.Web.Services;
    
    
    /// 
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Web.Services.WebServiceBindingAttribute(Name="TimeServiceSoap", Namespace="http://tempuri.org/")]
    public class TimeService : System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol {
        
        /// 
        public TimeService() {
            this.Url = "http://dotnet.jku.at/book/samples/7/simple/TimeService1.asmx";
        }
        
        /// 
        [System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapDocumentMethodAttribute("http://tempuri.org/GetTime", RequestNamespace="http://tempuri.org/", ResponseNamespace="http://tempuri.org/", Use=System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal, ParameterStyle=System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapParameterStyle.Wrapped)]
        public string GetTime() {
            object[] results = this.Invoke("GetTime", new object[0]);
            return ((string)(results[0]));
        }
        
        /// 
        public System.IAsyncResult BeginGetTime(System.AsyncCallback callback, object asyncState) {
            return this.BeginInvoke("GetTime", new object[0], callback, asyncState);
        }
        
        /// 
        public string EndGetTime(System.IAsyncResult asyncResult) {
            object[] results = this.EndInvoke(asyncResult);
            return ((string)(results[0]));
        }
    }
}