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Creates a rental auction so that rental items can be placed in auction, including date, time, auctioneer and auction status.

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Returned Parameters

Examples

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

We’ll assume you’ve got a web reference, let’s name it SWS, in your Visual Studio project.  At this point we need to our objects.  We’ll need the standard service object, a CreateAuction request object and a CreateAuction response object.  We can define and create those like this:

// Create request and response objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.CreateAuction_Request request = new SWS.CreateAuction_Request();
SWS.CreateAuction_Response response;

Here’s my sample code of the Request object.

// new auction request
request.SiteID = 123456;
request.AuctionDateTime = DateTime.Now.AddDays(7);
request.AuctioneerName = "Joe Auctioneer";
request.AuctionNotes = "This will be the only auction this month.";

Finally we can call the method and pass across the login object and the request object to create our auction. 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.CreateAuction(user_request, request);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Note that if something goes wrong the service will respond with an exception. You’ll want to take a look at that message returned in that exception so it can be debugged.

For a full list of methods see SWS Methods.