ASP.NET, XML, web service question, HTTP GET

[jkb17]

hello.

I have an asp.net web application. I believe that I accessing a web service. I do the following:

I have to install and register a COM DLL that will generate a unique login token for me per request. I have added the reference to my application and I can gnereate the TOKEN no problem.

I then dynamically generate the URL which is something like:

https://abc.abc.com/get.aspx?TOKEN=the_token&params=va1,val2

The results returned by the above URL is an xml document. How do I execute the above from within VB.NET in ASP.NET application so that I can "catch" the XML document in a dataset.

I have not been able to add a Web Reference directly to this web service.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance

Jim

 

[winston1983]

If you are working in Visual Studio .Net, right click the project, and then click Add Web Reference. Give the link to web service, I have don't done it any other way but it must be posible. Once you have created the web reference treat it like an object. Sample code below:

create the service as an object:

localhost.billyBikesService serv = new localhost.billyBikesService();

create dataset:

DataSet brandList = new DataSet();

make dataset equal to method, giving properties if needed:

brandList = serv.getBrandList();

create datagrid on page, the set datasource to dataset

brandDG.DataSource = brandList;

bind the data "IMPORTANT BIT":

brandDG.DataBind();

Regards,


Lewis Harvey
lewis@lharvey.com