# Connecting to a Web Service in Flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-to-a-web-service-in-flash/207751>\
**Category:** open source\
**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-to-a-web-service-in-flash/207751 "2006-11-21T06:54:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-to-a-web-service-in-flash/207751/1 "2006-11-21T06:54:59Z")

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There were several unanswered threads from a long time ago that dealt with accessing a web service using Flash. The following takes a web service I created in my [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) web service tutorial and displays the information in Flash:

```auto
import mx.services.WebService;
import mx.services.PendingCall;
function WebServiceCall(input:Number) {
 var returnedValue:String;
 var wsURL:String = "http://www.kirupafx.com/WebService/TopMovies.asmx?WSDL";
 var ws:WebService = new WebService(wsURL);
 var re:PendingCall = ws.GetMovieAtNumber(input);
 re.onResult = function(result):Void {
  returnedValue = result;
  trace("Value returned: "+returnedValue);
 };
 re.onFault = function(fault) {
  returnedValue = fault.faultCode+","+fault.faultstring;
  trace(returnedValue);
 };
}
// 5 corresponds to "Schindler's List"
WebServiceCall(5);

```

Hopefully this is helpful. This will definitely be expanded into a tutorial at a later time 🙂

Cheers!  
Kirupa :inc: