Testing concurrency with our own client

Creating the test client

Now that the service is ready we need to create a client to test it. In this section we will create a WinForm client to get the product details and update price for a product.

Follow these steps to create the test client:

• In Solution Explorer, right-click the solution item, and select Add | New Project…

• Select Visual C# | Windows Forms Application as the template and change the name to LINQNorthwindClient. Click on the OK button to add the new project.

• On the form designer, add the following five controls:

  • A label named lblProductID with text, Product ID

  • A textbox named txtProductID

  • A button named btnGetProduct with text, &Get Product Details

  • A label named lblProductDetails with text, Product Details

  • A textbox named txtProductDetails with the Multiline property set to True

  The layout of the form is like this:

  

• In Solution Explorer, right-click on the LINQNorthwindClient project and select Add Service Reference….

• On the Add Service...