casting incomptability between 2 instances of the same class

[Pierre]

Hi,

I am using 2 different web services: Manage_Login and Manage_Employee.
In these WS I can have the same message (using the appropriate
methods), and this message is an object that I serialize: Employee.

On the client side, after using my WS, I try to compare two objects:
Manage_Login.Employee and Manage_Employee.Employee. It is the same
class, from the same assembly (my underlying business objects
assembly), but coming from 2 different web services.

I get a casting incomptability between 2 instances of the same class.
Is there a way around that?

I would like not to have to write a function that does:
Manage_Login.Employee.Name=Manage_Employee.Employee.Name;
Manage_Login.Employee.EMail=Manage_Employee.Employee.EMail;
....

thank you for you thoughts and help,
Pierre

 

[Marc Gravell]

One option here is to use the command-line version of WSDL.exe, specifying
/sharetypes and *both* web-services in a single cs file; as long as the
namespace etc match, this will result in a single class that is used by both
services.

The other (huge) advantage of WSDL.exe (over the IDE UI) is that you can
specify /edb to get property-change notifications.

Marc

 

[Pierre]

Thank you for that very handy solution Marc.

I used the following line to fix my issue:

wsdl.exe /l:CS /edb /n:SoftwareName.WebServices /sharetypes
http://address.service1 http://address.service2...

It works fine for me. I found some interesting content related to web
services in .NET on these pages:
http://www.asp.net/QuickStart/webservices/doc/TypeSharing.aspx

Pierre

 

[Marc Gravell]

You're welcome - have a good one

Marc