How to: Implement the ChainStream Method to Save References to Stream Objects

This topic is specific to a legacy technology. XML Web services and XML Web service clients should now be created using Windows Communication Foundation.

The following example shows a common implementation of the ChainStream method.

Example

    ' Save the Stream representing the SOAP request or SOAP response
    ' into a local memory buffer.
    Public Overrides Function ChainStream(stream As Stream) As Stream
        ' Save the passed in Stream in a member variable.
        oldStream = stream

        ' Create a new instance of a Stream and save that in a member
        ' variable.
        newStream = New MemoryStream()
        Return newStream
    End Function

    // Save the Stream representing the SOAP request or SOAP response into
    // a local memory buffer.
    public override Stream ChainStream( Stream stream ){
        // Save the passed in Stream in a member variable.
        oldStream = stream;

        // Create a new instance of a Stream and save that in a member
        // variable.
        newStream = new MemoryStream();
        return newStream;
    }

See Also

Tasks

Walkthrough: Altering the SOAP Message Using SOAP Extensions