Using Data Services WSDL with Visual Studio 2008

Question

I am attempting to use the Data Services XI 3.1 WSDL (I think this Data Integrator v 12.1) in Visual Studio 2008 and I am having some difficulty.
I am getting the wsdl from the following location: http://devserver:28080/DataServices/servlet/webservices?ver2.0&wsdlxml
When I attempt to add the web reference to a project all look fine, I see a display of all the methods and their parameter description, etc. but when the add is complete it appears to be unusable. Attempting to instanciate the web service and call the methods results in unreconizable data types. The web service does not show up in Intellisense as a reconizable class, etc.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Answer 1

try adding a "Service Reference..."
In the add Service Reference panel, click Advanced and then select Add Web Reference.  Enter the url to the WSDL and see if this works.
If this continues to fail, try replacing 2.0 with 1.1 on your URL
ie:   /webservices?ver1.1&wsdlxml
if that still fails, past the URL in a browser and see if there are any error messages in the <documentation> tags.
if you are still having issues, try posting to:
Expert Forums --> Business Objects --> Enterprise Information Management
Dan