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DiscoveryDocument Class

Represents a discovery document. This class cannot be inherited.

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

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class DiscoveryDocument
'Usage
Dim instance As DiscoveryDocument

XML Web services discovery involves discovering the available XML Web services, given an URL. The URL typically points to a discovery document, which usually has a.disco file name extension. The discovery document, which is an XML document, contains references to information about the existance of XML Web services, such as a service description, XML Schema Definition (XSD) language schema, or another discovery document. This class represents the contents of the discovery document; where the References property contains a list of the references contained within the discovery document.

The following code example reads a discovery document from a file using the Read and writes it back out to file using the Write method.

Imports System
Imports System.Xml
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Web.Services.Discovery
Imports System.Collections


Public Class DiscoveryDocument_Example

   Shared Sub Main()
      Try 
         ' Create an object of the 'DiscoveryDocument'. 
         Dim myDiscoveryDocument As New DiscoveryDocument()

         ' Create an XmlTextReader with the sample file. 
         Dim myXmlTextReader As New XmlTextReader("http://localhost/example_vb.disco")

         ' Read the given XmlTextReader.
         myDiscoveryDocument = DiscoveryDocument.Read(myXmlTextReader)

         ' Write the DiscoveryDocument into the 'TextWriter'. 
         Dim myFileStream As New FileStream("log.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write)
         Dim myStreamWriter As New StreamWriter(myFileStream)
         myDiscoveryDocument.Write(myStreamWriter)

         myStreamWriter.Flush()
         myStreamWriter.Close()
         ' Display the contents of the DiscoveryDocument onto the console. 
         Dim myFileStream1 As New FileStream("log.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read)
         Dim myStreamReader As New StreamReader(myFileStream1)

         ' Set the file pointer to the begin.
         myStreamReader.BaseStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin)
         Console.WriteLine("The contents of the DiscoveryDocument are-")
         While myStreamReader.Peek() > - 1
            Console.WriteLine(myStreamReader.ReadLine())
         End While
         myStreamReader.Close()
      Catch e As Exception
         Console.WriteLine("Exception raised : {0}", e.Message.ToString())
      End Try 
   End Sub 'Main
End Class 'DiscoveryDocument_Example
#using <mscorlib.dll>
#using <System.Xml.dll>
#using <System.Web.Services.dll>
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Xml;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Web::Services::Discovery;
using namespace System::Collections;

int main()
{
   try 
   {
      // Create an Object* of the 'DiscoveryDocument'.
      DiscoveryDocument* myDiscoveryDocument = new DiscoveryDocument();

      // Create an XmlTextReader with the sample file.
      XmlTextReader* myXmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader(S"http://localhost/example_cs.disco");

      // Read the given XmlTextReader.
      myDiscoveryDocument = DiscoveryDocument::Read(myXmlTextReader);

      // Write the DiscoveryDocument into the 'TextWriter'.
      FileStream* myFileStream = new FileStream(S"log.txt", FileMode::OpenOrCreate, FileAccess::Write);
      StreamWriter* myStreamWriter = new StreamWriter(myFileStream);
      myDiscoveryDocument->Write(myStreamWriter);

      myStreamWriter->Flush();  
      myStreamWriter->Close(); 

      // Display the contents of the DiscoveryDocument onto the console.
      FileStream* myFileStream1 = new FileStream(S"log.txt", FileMode::OpenOrCreate, FileAccess::Read);
      StreamReader* myStreamReader = new StreamReader(myFileStream1);        

      // Set the file pointer to the begin.
      myStreamReader->BaseStream -> Seek(0, SeekOrigin::Begin); 
      Console::WriteLine(S"The contents of the DiscoveryDocument are-");
      while (myStreamReader->Peek() > -1) {
         Console::WriteLine(myStreamReader->ReadLine());
      }
      myStreamReader->Close();
   } 
   catch (Exception* e) 
   {
      Console::WriteLine(S"Exception raised : {0}", e -> Message);
   }
}

System.Object
  System.Web.Services.Discovery.DiscoveryDocument

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

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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