How to get all WebMethods of a WebService pointed by a ServiceReference.Path

Question

In my ASP.NET application, I use the ServiceReferenceCollection to carry a set of WebServices, and in the code-behind, I'm asked to figure out all the public WebMethod(s) and corresponding arguments of the WebServices by using .Net Reflection. However, the ServiceReference class provides only Path information that I can use for reflection, but I don't know how to GetType() from Path.

Answer 1

Path is a path to asmx file.

You can just open this file as a text file.

 <%@ WebService
    Language="C#" CodeBehind="MyService.asmx.cs"
    Class="Namespace1.Namepsace2.ClassName" %>

Read it as text and parse out class name for the file.
Once you have the class name you can use reflection to iterate through class methods.

Assumed that:

• asmx files are accessible
• web service assembly and types are loaded into app domain