Consuming a custom service

Custom services are consumed in a way quite similar to any other Dynamics AX service. The difference is that each custom service can have a totally different set of operations, where the system or document services always expose the same list operations.

In this recipe, we will create a .NET console application to demonstrate how to consume a custom service. We will use the service created in the Creating a custom service recipe, which returns a description of the provided currency.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps in order to complete this recipe:

1. 1. In Visual Studio, create a new Visual C# Console Application project named ConsumeBasicCustomService.

2. 2. Add a new service reference named CustomCurrencyServices to the project.

3. 3. Copy the address from the WSDL URI field, from the Creating a custom service recipe, into the Address field:

   

4. 4. Add the following code to the top section of the Program.cs file:

   using ConsumeBasicCustomService.CustomCurrencyServices...