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application moves from development to test to production. You have three options to
address this issue:
• You can programmatically set the Web service URL when you create an instance of
the proxy class.
• A more flexible approach that avoids a hard coded URL in the proxy is to set the
URL Behavior property of the Web service reference to Dynamic. This is the
preferred approach. When you set the property to Dynamic, code is added to the
proxy class to retrieve the Web service URL from a custom configuration section of
the application configuration file, Web.config for a Web application or
SomeApp.exe.config for a Windows application.
• You can also generate the proxy by using the WSDL.exe command line tool and
specifying the /urlkey switch. This works in a similar way to setting the URL
Behavior property in that it adds code to the proxy to retrieve the Web service URL,
but in this case the URL is stored in the section of the
application configuration file.
The dynamic URL approach also lets you provide a user configuration file, which can
override the main application configuration file. This enables separate developers and
members of the test team to temporarily redirect a Web service reference to an alternate
location.
How to Use Dynamic URLs and a User Configuration File
Set the URL Behavior property of your Web service reference to Dynamic to gain
maximum configuration flexibility within both the development and production
environments. By default, Visual Studio sets the value of this property to Dynamic when
you add a Web reference. To check that this value is still set to Dynamic:
1. In the Solution Explorer, expand the list of Web references.
2. Select each Web reference in the list.
3. For each Web reference, check that the value of the URL Behavior property is set to
Dynamic.
To specify a Web Service URL in a user configuration file
1. When you first add a Web reference, Visual Studio automatically generates the
App.config file for you. This file contains the Web service reference and the
configuration setting in the App.config file looks like the following: