Useing web service without a web reference

This article covers how to use a web service without a web reference.

The only thing that it fails to do is to recommend the creation of a descendant class to set the url.
This should be standard behaviour when dealing with autogenerated code – don’t touch it.

This allows the creation of a proxy that can have the url specified at run time.
This provides far better decoupling of the web service and gives the client the possiblility of choosing from a number of web service implementations.