RE: How does the MSFT Web Service Proxy Generator figure out .NET object types?

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From: Dan Rogers (danro_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 19:48:35 GMT

Hi,

The WSDL is all that the proxy generator (actually XSD.exe) uses. I'd need
more specifics on your exact situation to help you. An xsd:any does not
imply anything, btw, and there is no inspection of the methods by the proxy
generator at run time.

I hope this helps

Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation
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>Hi,
>
>I'm probably missing something obvious, but I'd like to know how the
>Web Service Proxy Generator in .NET 2003 figures out from a WSDL the
>correct type of a .NET object method parameter or result when there is
>no information about the type in the WSDL? Does it call each method and
>interrogate the response XML?
>
>I can understand that an xsd:any reference tells the WSDL consumer that
>a particular particle is expected to be determined at run time and an
><element type='xsd:schema'> says an XML Schema will be returned in the
>response message to describe the object, but the schema itself is not
>referenced in the WSDL. Yet, the proxy knows the correct type! I hate
>MSFT magic!
>
>Does anyone know? Am I just being dense?
>
>thanks
>peter
>
>

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