Creating a Server Based on a WSDL File

Many different businesses and industries are embracing SOAP, including investigating the possibility of creating standardized SOAP interfaces. The first large-scale instance of WSDL being used to define an industry-wide interface is UDDI itself. All operators must implement a common set of interfaces. If they did not, operator sites could not easily share data. The developers on the Visual Studio team have anticipated this and have included the capability to generate a server based on a WSDL file. So, what would you do and what would you get?

In an effort to standardize simple SOAP examples, let's create a standard AddService WSDL. This WSDL file exposes one method that adds two integers and returns the ...

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