what is the use of creating proxy for an webservice

i have an webserivce written where i do an insertion opertion to DB. path :http://localhost:1838/Ajax/WebService.asmx?wsdl.name of the webservice is localhost i have added webservice for the project

now on button click event i try to call this webserice like this localhost obj= new localhost(); obj.insert(); now i am able to do the insertion operation fine.

but i wanted to create an proxy for the webservice so wat is the use of it doing like tat?

when i run this command in my command prompt in vs

wsdl /out:myProxyClass.cs http://localhost:1838/Ajax/WebService.asmx?WSDL

i get an error

1. unable to connect the remote server.

2. no connection would be made because the target machine actively开发者_如何学C refused it

looking forward for an solution any help would great

thank you

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It looks like you are using the built in develoment webserver (Cassini). Are you sure it was running when you issued the wsdl command ? The tool needs to connect to the service and download metadata, in order to generate your proxy.