DLL and Web Service Problem
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Hello, I have a problem and may be you can help me. I've a DLL in a WS and the same DLL in a winform. I need to invoke a WS method that return for example a Person object, from the winform. The problem is that it can't convert the WS.Person to the DLL.Person. How can I convert that type? I try to cast but I still the errors. Thanks a lot !!
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Hello, I have a problem and may be you can help me. I've a DLL in a WS and the same DLL in a winform. I need to invoke a WS method that return for example a Person object, from the winform. The problem is that it can't convert the WS.Person to the DLL.Person. How can I convert that type? I try to cast but I still the errors. Thanks a lot !!
What error do you get?
Vitaliy Tsvayer Tikle
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What error do you get?
Vitaliy Tsvayer Tikle
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Well, first let me explain the reason of this problem. When you add WebReference to the WebService, proxy class is created with all the types that come from WSDL(generated by ASP.NET for your WebService). BUT, although generated classes have the same fields as your original class from DLL, they are abolutely different entities, that is why you cannot cast from WS.Person to DLL.person for instance. One of the solutions would be to modify the generated proxy class so that return type of the WebService method is the class from your shared DLL and not generated one. You need to modify Reference.css under Web References. Another solutions is to write code that takes WS.Person class and creates new DLL.person class by copying all the fields, etc. You could use reflection to shorten the code as all field names are the same in both types. Maybe there are more elegant solutions, but hope this helps.
Vitaliy Tsvayer Tikle