Windows Powershell: Invoking a Web Service

About a year ago I posted about invoking a Web Service using Windows Powershell v3 CTP 1. Powershell v3 is the standard on Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server. However, I learned that you don’t need to use v3, because there is a very nice cmdlet one can use to invoke Web services through a proxy object. It’s called New-WebServiceProxy.

So here is the example of invoking a stock quote Web service using powershell with the proxy cmdlet:
The outcome should be something like this:

 
On the above example I invoked the “getQuote” method. After instantiating the proxy on the $stock variable, if you’d like to learn what methods are available, as well as the parameters and return types, you can type at the prompt:

Overall, it’s a more powerful solution than the previous one I presented because you get to instantiate a proxy object with all the methods and properties of the Web service and it’s more compatible since you don’t need to upgrade.

Happy coding!