Matevž Gačnik's Weblog

Latest daily build of Mono already allows web service proxy creation, compilation and execution. I had to manually compile the wsdl.exe equivalent (called MonoWSDL.exe) and then do:

• mono MonoWSDL.exe http://www.gama-system.com/webservices/stockquotes.asmx?wsdl (outputs StockQuotes.cs proxy)
• mcs /r:/usr/local/lib/System.Web.Services.dll /t:library StockQuotes.cs
• write a simple console web service client app (StockQuotesClient.cs)
• compile it using mcs /r:StockQuotes.dll StockQuotesClient.cs
• run it with mono StockQuotesClient.exe NASDAQ MSFT

What did I get?

This:

That's sweet. But Mono can now also do it the other way around. I can generate proxies on our platform using the standard wsdl.exe tool. Mono web services test page looks like this:

When one adds the "?wsdl" suffix to a web service endpoint WSDL is returned as expected.

I like it.

[Note: http://www.gama-system.com/webservices/stockquotes.asmx is our free stock ticker web service]