A colleague at work has a problem. He has designed an asp.net app that will use a webservice located at a 3rd party company. They have provided him with the link to the .wsdl description (http:/www.blabla.com/ws.wsdl) as well as a 30 page user gude describing all the nuts and bolts (the xml specs). Now he turned to me asking; "what to do now??"

He is a very experienced vb6 and vb.net winforms programmer, this is his first asp.net-webservice project.

Basically, my thought is that he need a reference class. And I usually build my reference classes using the nice tools provided with visual studio (wsdl.exe) ...

The problem is that I find it impossible to make the reference.vb using the ms tools... they report errors in the xml structure, some kind of simple types error.

Now the question is.. what other ways are there to go from .wsdl -> finished asp.net app that uses webservice. I suspect that the 3rd party ws is built using websphere/java... but wsdl should be universal... hrmmm. Or is it an issue with the wsdl.exe file??

anyone with suggestions, ideas???


/Henrik