Tuesday, September 2, 2008

How to provide a user interface to any web service in 3 simple steps:

If you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and fire up your first Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) project you get the following default web page:

Microsoft is telling you in order to test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. Now at this point you are thinking this is a lot of work and you are right...

Not only you need to create such a client, you also need to maintain it as your service changes.

Wouldn't it be nice if you had a 'Generic Client' that provided a user interface for you?... This generic client would keep up with the changes to your server.

You add a function to your service… and there it is on your client with no additional client work.

Well... there is such generic client.



Introducing WSDLDISCO.

How to provide a user interface to any web service in 3 simple steps:

1- Download ‘wsdldisco’.
Goto http://www.wsdldisco.com/ and send us an email. We will send you an installation file.
2- Install ‘wsdldisco’
Run the ‘msi’ file we sent you and follow the instructions.
3- Host your service via ‘wsdldisco’
http://localhost/wsdldisco/default.aspx?swuri=http://www.mydomain.com/myservice/service.asmx