Console app to send a SOAP request

For troubleshooting purposes, it can be useful to invoke a web service method by sending an XML-formatted SOAP request and receiving the response. Here's a C# console application to do that. Just replace the URL and the XML request string with your own values.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace post
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Replace with the URL of your web service.
string strUrl = "http://oosapi/OosApiService.asmx";

// Replace with the XML-formatted SOAP request for the web service method you wish to call.
// Don't forget to escape any double quotes.
string strRequest = @"b5a3e821-6f7d-4ad0-b5d0-b723222bc319";

// Create the Request object.
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strUrl);
req.Method = "POST";
req.ContentType = "text/xml";
req.ContentLength = strRequest.Length;

// Send the request.
StreamWriter swRequest = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII);
swRequest.Write(strRequest);
swRequest.Close();

// Receive the response.
StreamReader srResponse = new StreamReader(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
string strResponse = srResponse.ReadToEnd();
srResponse.Close();

// Output the response.
Console.WriteLine(strResponse);
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}