Consuming the live Currency Conversion Web Service

There is a live .NET Web Service which offers all the curreny conversion eg. USD to INR etc.

This WS is available via live URL http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx

This WS has a class CurrecnyConvertor which exposes one Function named ConversionRate and an enum named Currency which exposed the list of all the currencies like USD, INR, AED etc.

As you know Currency conversion will depend on two parameters ConvertFrom and ConvertTo and so the same is expected to be passsed while invoking ConversionRate function.

Here is a detailed list of steps:

1- Add a Web Reference to http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx
2- Rename the Reference name to something more friendly like CurrencyConversionWS
3- In your project create an instance of the added Web service reference
4- On the created object invoke the ConversionRate function.
5- As mentioned above there is an enum which lists all the currencies and so access it directly from the object created.
6- Save the result into a double variable and multiply with your passed amount.
7- Multiply the amount you want to convert to the received conversion rate.

Here is the code you will require to have it all working:

CurrencyConversionWS.CurrencyConvertor objWS = new CurrencyConversionWS.CurrencyConvertor();

double usdToinr = objWS.ConversionRate(CurrencyConversionWS.Currency.USD, CurrencyConversionWS.Currency.INR);

double totalAmount = usdToinr * Double.Parse(textBox1.Text);

MessageBox.Show(totalAmount.ToString(),"Total Indian Rupees");

This is how it will look like:

What is SSPI in a .NET Connection String

SSPI stands for Security Support Provider Interface. The SSPI allows an application to use any of the available security packages on a system without changing the interface to use security services. The SSPI does not establish logon credentials because that is generally a privileged operation handled by the operating system.

Usually a .NETconnection string looks like this, you will have your own server, databse names ofcourse.


"Data Source=localhost\sql2012;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;
Integrated Security=SSPI"

Other than SSPI you can also use "true". Integrated Security actually ensures that you are connecting with SQL Server using Windows Authentication, not SQL Authentication; which requires username and password to be provided with the connecting string.