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What tools/methods are used to consume WCF web services for Android?

I am designing an Android application which is supposed to connect to a server via WCF web service.
I have a WCF web service written in .NET 4.5 and it is a self-hosted web service. It has SOAP endpoint configuration and it is not a very complex service, however it does include some methods which return DTOs (Classes containing lists, other DTOs and value types).
Now the problem I am facing is that I wish to use some sort of tools to consume the web service definition and generate the proxy classes. I have been successful doing this with the help of Eclipse, but the resulting generated code uses alot of external libraries not available within Android.
Now my question is, what are the preferred tools/methods to consume WCF SOAP web services?

I found that using the following tool gave me the best generated code.
https://code.google.com/p/android-ws-client/
I do recommend this tool to anyone looking for consuming a WCF SOAP web service.

Create C# SOAP API Consumable by other Languages

I've been trying to find a tutorial on here, MSDN, and Google on how to implement my own SOAP API. I have an application written in C# that I want to be consumable by PHP so that calls from the web can interact with the application. How do I generate and tie a WSDL file to my application so that it can be communicated with over SOAP calls? Any suggestions?

I think for this you just need to create WCF service in .net that will allow you to consume server from any language.

Create an ASP.Net Web Services .wsdl file to communicate with the various applications. Host the Web Service on windows IIS server and configure the ports accordingly, then you can access the endpoints to whcih ever application you are using, using the address and the web method name.

Easiest path for Microsoft Web API to generate WSDL

Web API, unlike some of the older Microsoft web service technologies, does not generate WSDL documentation automatically.
What's the easiest way for it to automatically generate (or quickly manually generate) the WSDL associated with each service call?

Web API is technology to create REST services and REST services don't use WSDL so there is no way for your service to generate one. WSDL 1.1 supported by MS and WCF even doesn't offer ability to describe REST services.
WSDL 2.0 or WADL offers REST service description but MS and WCF supports neither of them and these standards were not broader accepted and supported yet.

how to consume a .net webservice from a C++ application?

I have a c++ application which checks the information about the printers in a given network. I need to store this information in database, using a webservice in another .net web application. But I m new to c++ and i have no idea how i can make a call to the webmethod in the webservice using c++. There is no add web reference option in the c++ application.
can anybody suggest me a good tutorial for this?
My application is a win32 console application.
Thanks,
Subrat

There is an MSDN article using Visual Studio 2005 named Walkthrough: Accessing an XML Web Service Using C++ and the CLR that should be similar to using Visual Studio 2008 C++.

You could use Axis from Apache to connect to web services.

Since you imply Windows, you might look at WinInet (look for it in msdn). WinInet is a very powerful and feature rich http client but also complicated to use, especially in asynchronous mode.

SOAP messages that are exchanged between client and server are basically XML documents and they are sent via HTTP (they are in the body of HTTP message). If you know the format of SOAP request and response you could use WinHttp API, or more general WinINet. Yet another solution is IXMLHTTPRequest. Be prepared to parse XMLs yourself, probably by using MSXML.
ATL Server is not available in VS2008 (it is released as community project so am not sure how keen Microsoft is to support this technology).
I used WinINet on WinCE to access Apache Axis2/C web service.

Look into gSoap - a great open-source, C/C++ library for accessing web services. I've used this extensively for accessing services written in .Net. Commercial and not-for-profit licenses available.
You just need the wsdl file/url and it will generate the client / server code for you. From the web site:
The gSOAP distribution package
includes two compiler tools to develop
your applications:
The 'wsdl2h' WSDL
parser. This tool converts WSDLs and
XSD files into annotated C/C++
definitions.
The 'soapcpp2' stub and
skeleton compiler. This tool generates
RPC code and XML serializers from the
annotated C/C++ definitions.
The 'wsdl2h' parser converts WSDL into
gSOAP header file specifications of
Web services. This specification gives
a C/C++ transparent view of the
server's functionality. The header
file is processed by 'soapcpp2' to
generate the source code stubs and
skeletons to invoke the service or
build a new service based on the WSDL.

Developing .NET Web Service from WSDL file

What's the best practices for developing a web service with a WSDL as a start point?

Use SvcUtil to generate your service interface and then develop a service against that. Here is an example.

Your question is a little vaque, but developing web services with .net is quite easy.
Using visual studio, most of the things are generated for you. You can add methods as
[WebMethod]
public string hello(){
return "hello"
}
and luckily once you deploy it, the wsdl is generated for you.
If you are looking to download some entities from a wsdl, you can use the wsdl utility and invoke a wsdl to download the entity class.

Check out the WCF Developer Center on MSDN - it has tons of tutorials, article, screencasts that show you how to create a SOAP based web service, based on code or WSDL.

I found this question helpful when I had the same question in the past.
Create an ASMX web service from a WSDL file
The problem I had was that I was given a WSDL. I needed to create web service methods based on the contract that the WSDL provided.