Using a Web Service - Page 3

Phew, after the last few pages I'm sure you are looking forward to taking a break from designing the interface. On this page we wrap up the interface and begin adding our web service.

12. Your entire interface should look like the following image:

Alright! We are done creating our form, and all that is left is Part Two of this tutorial where you really learn how to get data from a web service and display the results.

Part the Second - Accessing Our Web Service
Part One really dealt with the unrelated, yet necessary, job of providing the interface for sending and receiving data from our Web Service. In this section, you will get to add an existing web service and code up the interaction between the web service and our interface.

Adding a Web Service
The following steps will detail how to add a web service to your project:

1. To add a web service to our project, right-click on your project from the Solutions Explorer and select Add Web Reference:

2. When you select the Add Web Reference menu-item, the Add Web Reference window will appear. In the URL field, copy and paste the following URL: http://www.kirupafx.com/WebService/TopMovies.asmx and press the Go button.
3. A search progress bar will play for a few seconds, and then your screen will say that a web service has been found along with a short sample of what the web service is about. In the Web Reference name text field, change the text to say MovieService and press the Add Reference button:

After you have pressed the Add Reference button, and if this was the first web service you have added to your project, an App_WebReferences folder will be created in your Solution Explorer:

You are now done adding a web service to your project. All that is left now is to use some code to refer to our web service.

So far, we have added our Web Reference. In the next page, we will use our Web Reference to interact with the interface you created over the last few pages.

Onwards to the next page!

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