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#Sep 20th, 2007 @ 1:51 PM
qwert231
qwert231
M Kenyon

Our team is making heavy use of a custom, serializable class, that is shared by both the server and client sides of our solution. There is a web service bridging the gap.

When we make a change to the web service, the client side web reference needs to be manuall tweaked to use our full namespace, otherwise we get compile errors down the line.

I was looking at this article:
http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/jdruyts/wsproxy.mspx

which states that we can customize the web service proxy generation by creating a Schema Importer Extension. But they suggest putting it in the GAC or in the development environment's PrivateAssemblies directory and config file.

I was wondering if there was a way we could simply add a file, attribute to the assembly in question, that would easily be consumed into our teams app.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?

#Sep 20th, 2007 @ 4:10 PM
JohnnyAwesome
JohnnyAwesome
Eggshell with Romalian type. What do you think?
qwert231 wrote:


When we make a change to the web service, the client side web reference needs to be manuall tweaked to use our full namespace, otherwise we get compile errors down the line.



I presume the front-side is eating your webservice after being registered into the ScriptManager or another way?
#Sep 21st, 2007 @ 7:15 AM
qwert231
qwert231
M Kenyon
The front end is a access layer assembly, which in turn is consumed by a Smart Client app.

The access layer handles the data access to and from the web service. It also handles most of the validation, so that very little logic is handled by the UI, incase we ever decide to re-write it as a web app.

When I say Manually tweaked, I mean, we have to go into the reference.cs file for the Web Reference, and fully qualify the custom object.

The proxy generator writes the proxy like this:

public CustomClassName someMethod(yada...)

and we change it to:
public RootNamespace.Framework.Common.CustomClassname someMethod(yada...)

Or when we do generics, it writes:

public OurGenericNameOfDecimal otherMethod(yada...)

which we have to change to:
public RootNamespace.Framework.Common.OurGenericName<Decimal> otherMethod(yada...)

A find...replace works... but if we do find...replace...all this breaks other generated stuff, so we only do find...replace for the web method signatures and returns. Very time consuming.

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