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Updates a rental contact and returns a copy of the updated record. This method does not update addresses or phone numbers. Use UpdateAddress or UpdatePhone to update that portion of the contact information.

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Returned Parameters

Example

As with every method we need to pass in credentials. We do this with the LookupUser request object.

We will assume you have a web reference, let us name it SWS, in your Visual Studio project. At this point we need to define our objects.  We will need the standard service object, a Contact request object, and a Contact response object. We can define and create those like this:

// Create a request and response objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.Contact_Request request = new SWS.Contact_Request();
SWS.Contact_Response response;

Here is a sample code of the request object (including some optional parameters):

// UpdateContact Request
request.AcctID = 123456;
request.ContactId = 123456;
request.Email = "j.doe@a.c";
request.EcommCode = "TestPass";

Finally we can call the method and pass across the login object and the request object to retrieve our requested information. It’s a good idea to do this in a Try Catch block.

   ' Call the method that will load the response object
try
{
  response = service.UpdateContact(user_request, request);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Note that if something goes wrong the service will respond with an exception. You will want to capture the message in the exception so it can be debugged.

For a full list of methods see SWS Methods.