I don't get how to add Web References in Windows Phone RT

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Hey folks? I have a doubt about to use web services on Windows phone 8.1 RT without being Silverlight. When I go to select " Add Web Reference "It does not Appear for me. I want to use Windows Phone RT, is it possible?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '16 at 08:19

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What about

Add Service Reference -> Advanced -> Add Web Reference -> and fill out the rest from there.

It is explained with images (for an older version of the IDE, VS2008) here

answered Jul 18 '16 at 08:19

VictorySaber

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '16 at 14:48

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Add Service Reference (specifically the System.ServiceModel namespace) is not supported in Windows Phone 8.1 RT. There's a possible workaround here:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/myamama/2014/06/24/workaround-to-adding-service-reference-to-windows-phone-8-1-runtime-app/

I got around the problem by manually building a SOAP client wrapper class, and manually building the service request for each API call. It's laborious but it works...

answered Jul 21 '16 at 14:48

odinel

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Thank you! It worked. I had seen this site and I implemented the same way, but wondered if there was another way. – Paulo Henrique Sousa Jul 21 '16 at 17:55

I don't get how to add Web References in Windows Phone RT

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