In this article we will be seeing how to add web reference in Visual studio 2010.

I have created a console application to access the _vti_bin/excelservice.asmx web service. To do that I need to add the web reference, here we will be seeing how to add the web reference.

To add the web reference do the following steps:

  1. Go to the console application, right click on the References folder and click on "Add Service reference".

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  2. Click on "Advanced".

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  3. Click on "Add Web Reference".

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  4. Enter the URL of the web service (For example http://<servername>/_vti_bin/excelservice.asmx) and click on Enter.

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  5. Change the web reference name if you wish and click on "Add Reference".

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  6. You could see the web reference added to your solution as shown in the following.

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  7. For more information on difference between the web reference and service reference refer the following URL http://andrewtokeley.net/archive/2008/07/10/the-difference-between-ldquoadd-web-referencerdquo-and-ldquoadd-service-referencerdquo.aspx .