Hello,

I'm trying to test calling a webservice, I've found several free ones on http://webserviceshare.com, but none of them work for me.  Some of them give example calling code in C# which I've translated to VB.NET, they're typically just two to four lines, I don't think I've translated them incorrectly.

On that I've tried is US Zip Validator.  I added a Service Reference to http://www.webservicemart.com/uszip.asmx?WSDL, called ZipService.

I then call it like so:

            Dim myZipService As ZipService.USZipSoapClient = New ZipService.USZipSoapClient()
            Dim myCity As String = myZipService.ValidateZip("27707")

I get the following error on the first line of code:

"An endpoint configuration section for contract 'ZipService.USZipSoap' could not be loaded because more than one endpoint configuration for that contract was found. Please indicate the preferred endpoint configuration section by name."

A page with information on this web service (including C# source code) is at:

http://webserviceshare.com/Reference/Directories/Phones-Addresses/WsdlService/US-Zip-Validator/ValidateZip.htm

Some of the other ones on webserviceshare.com that I've tried are the AustralianPostCodeSoapClient and the GetUKLocationByCounty, but they all fail with a similar error on the constructor.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

-Eric

Hello,

In the thread at http://servicefactory.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=25485, I found: 

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Did you try something like this?

MyClientProxy proxy = new MyClientProxy("endpoint name");

Where "endpoint name" should be pointing to one of your endpoints (name attr) in client config file.

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I looked at the app.config file and found:

<endpoint address="http://www.webservicemart.com/uszip.asmx"
                binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="USZipSoap"
                contract="ZipService.USZipSoap" name="USZipSoap" />
            <endpoint address="http://www.webservicemart.com/uszip.asmx"
                binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="USZipSoap12"
                contract="ZipService.USZipSoap" name="USZipSoap12" />

I changed my code to:

Dim myZipService As ZipService.USZipSoapClient = New ZipService.USZipSoapClient("USZipSoap")
            Dim myCity As String = myZipService.ValidateZip("27707")

and it worked!

-Eric