Getting an Instance of your Web Service Reference

So I believe all you have to do with .NET 2.0 vanilla web services (not WCF) is the following:

1) Add your service reference. In m开发者_如何学JAVAy case I'm using the PayPal WSDL 2) Before you can use any proxy class, you must first create an instance of your service reference 3) Once you create an instance of your service reference, then just do [servicereference].ProxyClassName.Method or whatever you're trying to access from those classes

right?

Ok, so I tried that. I added a service reference and named it SandboxSoapAPI. So that's what you see under references in my C# project.

In code I tried this:

SandboxSoapApi reference = new SandboxSoapApi();

but it doesn't recognize SandboxSoapAPI. Am I doing something wrong? I just want to start calling class methods, etc. with PayPal and I can't seem to get this right.

And if I'm not incorrect, as of .NET 2.0+ it handles the low level sending of the actual request over Http for SOAP web service references?

SandboxSoapAPI is not the SOAP client proxy type name. It's a namespace.

To check this, in VS.NET tick 'show all files' and drill into the Web References, open up the Reference.cs file, you will see the SandboxSoapApi is a subnamespace (not your SOAP client proxy name!) in the project's root namespace.

So either use the fully qualified name:

SandboxSoapAPI.YourProxyType client = new SanboxSoapAPI.YourProxyType();

Or use using SandboxSoapAPI; in your code where you need the SOAP client.