Able to consume web service in Visual Studio 2008 but not in 2010

Question

I'm trying to consume a web service created in Java (XFire) from Visual Studio 2010. The service works in Visual Studio 2008 without an issue. In both cases I'm using a web reference to access the service. I've also tried svcutil.exe generate the web service consumer code and walk through it and it still will not return data.

I have access to the log4j logs and I don't see the call causing any execution on the Java side.

Does anyone know if I'm missing a setting somewhere? Or if consumption of web services via a web reference is somehow more strict in 2010.

In the below code rwsResponse is something but rwsResponse.WorkerServiceResponse is Nothing after the call to retrieveWorker:

Dim rwsService As New rws.WorkerService
Dim rwsResponse As New rws.retrieveWorkerResponse
Dim rwsRequest As New rws.retrieveWorker

rwsRequest.SearchOption = New rws.RetrieveKeyType()
rwsRequest.SearchOption.Items = New String() {userID}
rwsRequest.SearchOption.ItemsElementName = New rws.ItemsChoiceType() {rws.ItemsChoiceType.user_Id}

rwsResponse = rwsService.retrieveWorker(rwsRequest)

Dim rwsWorker As rws.EnterpriseWorkerType
Dim rwsMessage As rws.MessageType

If rwsResponse Is Nothing OrElse rwsResponse.WorkerServiceResponse Is Nothing Then
    Throw New Exception(String.Format("retrieveWorkerService:WorkerServiceResponse is null{0}userID:{1}", vbCrLf, userID))
End If

What is strange is this code works fine in Visual Studio .NET 2008. Both 2008 and 2010 are targeting 3.5 for this app.

Answer 1

Try using the old way of reference a web service. When you do a "Add Service Reference", on the dialog that comes up, click on the Advanced button in the button left corner, and click add web reference.