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SoapMessage::ContentType Property

Gets or sets the HTTP Content-Type of the SOAP request or SOAP response.

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

public:
property String^ ContentType {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String
The HTTP Content-Type of the SOAP request or SOAP response. The default is "text/xml".

ExceptionCondition
InvalidOperationException

ContentType is accessed AfterSerialize or AfterDeserialize stages.

The ContentType property can only be accessed in the BeforeSerialize and BeforeDeserialize stages; otherwise, an InvalidOperationException is thrown.

Use the ContentEncoding property, instead of the ContentType property to provide supplementary information about the encoding of a SOAP message.


myStreamWriter->WriteLine( "The contents of HTTP Content-type header is:" );
myStreamWriter->WriteLine( "\t{0}", message->ContentType );


.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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