ServiceDescription Class

.NET Framework (current version)

Provides a means of creating and formatting a valid Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document file, complete with appropriate namespaces, elements, and attributes, for describing an XML Web service. This class cannot be inherited.

Namespace: System.Web.Services.Description
Assembly: System.Web.Services (in System.Web.Services.dll)

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
System.Web.Services.Description.DocumentableItem
System.Web.Services.Description.NamedItem
System.Web.Services.Description.ServiceDescription

Syntax

C++

[XmlFormatExtensionPointAttribute("Extensions")]
public sealed class ServiceDescription : NamedItem

Constructors

	Name	Description
	ServiceDescription()	Initializes a new instance of the ServiceDescription class.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Bindings	Gets the collection of Binding elements contained in the ServiceDescription.
	Documentation	Gets or sets the text documentation for the instance of the DocumentableItem.(Inherited from DocumentableItem.)
	DocumentationElement	Gets or sets the documentation element for the DocumentableItem.(Inherited from DocumentableItem.)
	ExtensibleAttributes	Gets or sets an array of type XmlAttribute that represents attribute extensions of WSDL to comply with Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Basic Profile 1.1.(Inherited from DocumentableItem.)
	Extensions	Gets the collection of extensibility elements contained in the ServiceDescription.(Overrides DocumentableItem.Extensions.)
	Imports	Gets the collection of Import elements contained in the ServiceDescription.
	Messages	Gets the collection of Message elements contained in the ServiceDescription.
	Name	Gets or sets the name of the item.(Inherited from NamedItem.)
	Namespaces	Gets or sets the dictionary of namespace prefixes and namespaces used to preserve namespace prefixes and namespaces when a ServiceDescription object is constructed.(Inherited from DocumentableItem.)
	PortTypes	Gets the collection of PortType elements contained in the ServiceDescription.
	RetrievalUrl	Gets or sets the URL of the XML Web service to which the ServiceDescription instance applies.
	Schema	Gets the schema associated with this ServiceDescription.
	Serializer	Gets the XML serializer used to serialize and deserialize between a ServiceDescription object and a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document.
	ServiceDescriptions	Gets the ServiceDescriptionCollection instance of which the ServiceDescription is a member.
	Services	Gets the collection of Service instances contained in the ServiceDescription.
	TargetNamespace	Gets or sets the XML targetNamespace attribute of the descriptions tag enclosing a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.
	Types	Gets or sets the Types contained by the ServiceDescription.
	ValidationWarnings	Gets a StringCollection that contains any validation warnings that were generated during a call to Read(Stream, Boolean), Read(TextReader, Boolean), Read(String, Boolean), or Read(XmlReader, Boolean) with the validate parameter set to true.

Methods

	Name	Description
	CanRead(XmlReader)	Gets a value that indicates whether an XmlReader represents a valid Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file that can be parsed.
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode()	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance.(Inherited from Object.)
	Read(Stream)	Initializes an instance of the ServiceDescription class by directly loading the XML from a Stream instance.
	Read(Stream, Boolean)	Initializes an instance of the ServiceDescription class by directly loading the XML from a Stream instance.
	Read(String)	Initializes an instance of a ServiceDescription object by directly loading the XML from the specified file.
	Read(String, Boolean)	Initializes an instance of a ServiceDescription object by directly loading the XML from the specified file.
	Read(TextReader)	Initializes an instance of the ServiceDescription class by directly loading the XML from a TextReader.
	Read(TextReader, Boolean)	Initializes an instance of the ServiceDescription class by directly loading the XML from a TextReader.
	Read(XmlReader)	Initializes an instance of the ServiceDescription class by directly loading the XML from an XmlReader.
	Read(XmlReader, Boolean)	Initializes an instance of the ServiceDescription class by directly loading the XML from an XmlReader.
	ToString()	Returns a string that represents the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
	Write(Stream)	Writes out the ServiceDescription to the specified Stream.
	Write(String)	Writes out the ServiceDescription as a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file to the specified path.
	Write(TextWriter)	Writes out the ServiceDescription as a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file to the TextWriter.
	Write(XmlWriter)	Writes out the ServiceDescription to the XmlWriter as a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

Fields

	Name	Description
	Namespace	The XML namespace in which the ServiceDescription class is defined ("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"). This field is constant.

Remarks

Instances of this class can be created with either the new keyword or the static Read method, which parses a WSDL file and assigns its values to appropriate members of the class.

WSDL is an XML-based language for describing XML Web services. The ServiceDescription class corresponds to the root element, definitions, of a WSDL file. For more information about WSDL, see the specification at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl/.

Examples

The following example shows how to create an instance of the ServiceDescription class.

C++

// Obtain the ServiceDescription of existing Wsdl.
ServiceDescription myDescription = ServiceDescription.Read("MyWsdl_CS.wsdl");
// Remove the Binding from the Binding Collection of ServiceDescription.
BindingCollection myBindingCollection = myDescription.Bindings;
myBindingCollection.Remove(myBindingCollection[0]);

// Form a new Binding.
Binding myBinding = new Binding();
myBinding.Name = "Service1Soap";
XmlQualifiedName myXmlQualifiedName = 
                     new XmlQualifiedName("s0:Service1Soap");
myBinding.Type = myXmlQualifiedName;

SoapBinding mySoapBinding = new SoapBinding();
mySoapBinding.Transport = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http";
mySoapBinding.Style = SoapBindingStyle.Document;

OperationBinding addOperationBinding = 
       CreateOperationBinding("Add",myDescription.TargetNamespace);
myBinding.Operations.Add(addOperationBinding);
myBinding.Extensions.Add(mySoapBinding);

// Add the Binding to the ServiceDescription.
myDescription.Bindings.Add(myBinding);
myDescription.Write("MyOutWsdl.wsdl");

Version Information

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1

Thread Safety

Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.