We will now generate Web Services clients to access the CICSCommareaWS service that we deployed to our CICSCA enterprise server.
Note: Be sure you have met all of the prerequisites for generating Windows Forms clients as specified in the topic
Prerequisites.
Restriction: For service interfaces, the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell supports the generation of console clients only. To generate any other type of client, you must install a full version of Visual Studio.
The generation process for Web Services automatically produces a console client; however, we must set an option to enable generation of a Windows Forms client.
- From Visual Studio, click
Tools >
Options.
- Expand
Micro Focus; then click
Service Interfaces.
- Check
Windows Forms Application; then click
OK.
- From the Solution Explorer, right-click the
CICSCommareaWS service interface; then click
Generate Clients.
You can watch the generation process in the
Output window. When it is complete, you'll see the message "Generation succeeded". You should see that two projects have been added to the Solution Explorer:
- CICSCommareaWSConsoleApp - the console client.
- CICSCommareaWSWinApp - the Windows Forms client.
Each new project contains the necessary client files to successfully access the CICSCommareaWS service now running on the CICSCA enterprise server.
