Hello,

This is driving me bonkers!

I'm trying to use the Authorize.Net automatic recurring billing API. I downloaded the sample code, and I'm at a loss. Then I tried to connect to their SOAP service, which VWD made short work off, but I don't know how to proceed. I can see the properties and functions in the Intellisense, but I'm totally clueless.

The pdf for the SOAP integration is here: http://www.authorize.net/support/ARB_SOAP_guide.pdf

The sample code is here: http://developer.authorize.net/dscode/vbnet_arb.zip

I'm a complete dummy when it comes to SOAP and APIs. Is there a resource that will give me a crash course, so that I can crack this nut?

Please help!

Thank you!  

You may have already checked this... but there is a decent tutorial on web services @ w3schools.com  http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/default.asp.  If that doesn't help post a sample of the code you are working with.

 Hope this helps,

 Scott

Thanks, but the sample code is several hundred lines of code, and I don't know which portion I should paste here.

If it helps, here is the actual .asmx file for the web service: https://api.authorize.net/soap/v1/Service.asmx

There is one operation called "AuthenticateTest." It's a simple function that checks if the API is available. Can you give me a simple code sample on how to access that and how to capture the response?

Thanks!

  Add using for web service.. mine was using WindowsFormsApplication1.net.authorize.api;

1    public bool CheckApi()
2    		{
3    			//Instatiate the Service
4    			Service service = new Service();
5    			
6    			//Set Auth Transaction Values
7    			MerchantAuthenticationType myAuth = new MerchantAuthenticationType();
8    			
9    			myAuth.name = "Your_NAME";
10   			myAuth.transactionKey = "YOUR_TRANSACTION_KEY";
11   			
12   			//Use the service to return a response type
13   			ANetApiResponseType response = service.AuthenticateTest(myAuth);
14   			
15   			//Run through the messages
16   			foreach(MessagesTypeMessage mess in response.messages)
17   			{
18   				Console.WriteLine(mess.text);
19   				Console.WriteLine(mess.code);
20   			}
21   			
22   			//Check the response result code against the MessageTypeEnum
23   			//Return Bool
24   			if(response.resultCode = MessageTypeEnum.Ok)
25   			{
26   				return true;
27   			}
28   			else if(response.resultCode = MessageTypeEnum.Error)
29   			{
30   				return false;
31   			}
32   		}

Hope this helps,

Scott 

Awesome, thanks!! 

 Hey Steve,

I'm trying to get this same thing going with authorize.net too. I'm having difficulty getting a working example going. The vbnet_arb file appears to be in the 1.1 framework I think. If you have an asp.net 2.0 version working could you post your code here? Or email it to me at yacadoo at cox dot net (trying to limit spam bots)?

Thanks,

Jason

 Wait a sec, a second look at this maybe it is not .net 1.1 but these files are classes maybe? Anyhow, if you get a working example I would still appreciate it if you could post your code.

Later,

Jason