Call web service using HttpWebRequest and serialization

Desrible how  to call web service using httpwebreqeust

show how to create request data by serialization

- Step One. Create reqeust by serialization

1. use xsd.exe to create a class file(.cs file)

2. create an object from this class, assign value to the object

3. use SoapFormatter.Serialize to write to a MemoryStream object (in order to use SoapFormatter, maybe need to manually add reference: System.Runtime.Serialization.Fomatter.Soap, XmlSerializer can't be used here)

4. Convert data from MemoryStream to dataArray

 

 

sFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, mo);

 

memoryStream.Close();

-Step Two.  Post Data

 

// submit http request

 

WRequest.KeepAlive =

WRequest.ContentType =

WRequest.Method =

WRequest.ContentLength = postData.Length;

WRequest.Headers.Add(

 

stream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);

stream.Close();

HttpWebRequest WRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(urlString);true;"text/xml";"POST";"SOAPAction", "http://www.informatel.net/img/MessageData");Stream stream = WRequest.GetRequestStream();

 

// receive the response

 

HttpWebResponse WResponse = (HttpWebResponse)WRequest.GetResponse();

Stream receiveStream = WResponse.GetResponseStream();Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8");// Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format.

 

 

StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, encode);string result = readStream.ReadToEnd();

 

 

 

 

MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream (); SoapFormatter sFormatter = new SoapFormatter (); byte [] postData = memoryStream.ToArray();