Microsoft Webservices - WSDL visual generation tool

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WSDL visual generation tool

George Jordanov Ivanov

2006-02-24, 3:58 am

Folks,

I have to design the WSDL files of a bunch of XML Web Services. But,
unfortunately, I am not very keen on writing the WSDL file line by line, and
moreover be aware of the whole standard specification in details. I will be
very happy if there is a visual tool, which can do this for me. Does anyone
know such kind of tool (if it is free, this is going to be awesome)?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
George Ivanov

George Jordanov Ivanov

2006-02-24, 7:02 pm

Hi Steven,

Thanks for your reply. My goal is to write the WSDL file manually because I
want to put additional headers, types and SOAP messages (I want to have a
valid XML schema which will verify te SOAP messages that I am gonna dispatch
/ receive). Having these in the WSDL file, VS.NET indeed will automatically
(or manually through wsdl.exe) generate the Web proxy class having
full-blown header properties etc. However, what I am actually looking for is
a tool that will "guide" me so that I can define first the SOAP messages
with their headers, operations and stuff, but after will validate the whole
schema and will define the additional entities like for example parameters
passed to operations etc.

GotDotNet site has good tools indeed but they however does not offer the
functionality that I am looking for. Altova indeed has this Web Services
studio, but so far I haven't reviewed it. Probably I should. However, I will
appreciate if you have other propositions :)

Thans again for you reply!
Regards,
George Jordanov Ivanov

On gotdotnet.org
"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi George,
>
> Welcome to the MSDN newsgroup.
>
> As for WSDL document, if you're .NET framework sdk or VS.NET ide, it'll
> automatically generate the wsdl document for your webservice class.
>
> If you want to manually generate WSDL xml document, as far as I know ,the
> XMLSpy tool provide such functionality. In addition, you can also try
> searching on the gotdotnet site on some .NET specific webservice tools:
>
> #Web Service Tools
> http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/tools...vc/default.aspx
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven Cheng
> Microsoft Online Support
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George Jordanov Ivanov

2006-02-26, 9:59 pm

Folks,

I found the tool I was looking for - it is named WsContractFirst. It
actually follows Microsoft's recommendation of writing WSDL contract first
and most of all is free. Check it out at:
http://www.thinktecture.com/Resourc...st/default.html

A simple tutorial how to work with this Visual Studio 2003 add-in can be
found here:
http://www.thinktecture.com/resourc...st/default.html

I managed to create the WSDL files I was planning using both this tutorial
and the add-in itself. One drawback that I find is that this tool so far is
not ported for Visual Studio 2005, but I guess that soon the its creators
will fix this.

Regards,
George Jordanov Ivanov

"George Jordanov Ivanov" <george.ivanov@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:eBseRrWOGHA.648@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Hi Steven,
>
> Thanks for your reply. My goal is to write the WSDL file manually because
> I want to put additional headers, types and SOAP messages (I want to have
> a valid XML schema which will verify te SOAP messages that I am gonna
> dispatch / receive). Having these in the WSDL file, VS.NET indeed will
> automatically (or manually through wsdl.exe) generate the Web proxy class
> having full-blown header properties etc. However, what I am actually
> looking for is a tool that will "guide" me so that I can define first the
> SOAP messages with their headers, operations and stuff, but after will
> validate the whole schema and will define the additional entities like for
> example parameters passed to operations etc.
>
> GotDotNet site has good tools indeed but they however does not offer the
> functionality that I am looking for. Altova indeed has this Web Services
> studio, but so far I haven't reviewed it. Probably I should. However, I
> will appreciate if you have other propositions :)
>
> Thans again for you reply!
> Regards,
> George Jordanov Ivanov
>
> On gotdotnet.org
> "Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:Dkc94HTOGHA.668@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
>
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