Add Web Reference in Visual Studio 2010

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:

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

• Click on "Advanced".
  

• Click on "Add Web Reference".

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

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

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

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