Calling a SOAP service in .net Core

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Ok this answer is for those who are trying to connect to a WCF service from a .net Core project.

Here is the solution to my problem, using the new .net Core WCF syntax/library.

BasicHttpBinding basicHttpBinding = null;
EndpointAddress endpointAddress = null;
ChannelFactory<IAService> factory = null;
IAService serviceProxy = null;

try
{
    basicHttpBinding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport);
    basicHttpBinding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Basic;
    endpointAddress = new EndpointAddress(new Uri("https://someurl.com/ws/TheEndpoint.pub.ws:AService"));
    factory = new ChannelFactory<IAService>(basicHttpBinding, endpointAddress);

    factory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = "usrn";
    factory.Credentials.UserName.Password = "passw";
    serviceProxy = factory.CreateChannel();

    using (var scope = new OperationContextScope((IContextChannel)serviceProxy))
    {
        var result = await serviceProxy.getSomethingAsync("id").ConfigureAwait(false);
    }

    factory.Close();
    ((ICommunicationObject)serviceProxy).Close();
}
catch (MessageSecurityException ex)
{
     throw;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
    throw;
}
finally
{
    // *** ENSURE CLEANUP (this code is at the WCF GitHub page *** \\
    CloseCommunicationObjects((ICommunicationObject)serviceProxy, factory);
}

UPDATE

I got the following exception using the code above

This OperationContextScope is being disposed out of order.

Which seems to be something that is broken (or needs addressing) by the WCF team.

So I had to do the following to make it work (based on this GitHub issue)

basicHttpBinding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport);
basicHttpBinding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Basic;

factory = new ChannelFactory<IAService_PortType>(basicHttpBinding, new EndpointAddress(new Uri("https://someurl.com/ws/TheEndpoint.pub.ws:AService")));
factory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = "usern";
factory.Credentials.UserName.Password = "passw";
serviceProxy = factory.CreateChannel();
((ICommunicationObject)serviceProxy).Open();
var opContext = new OperationContext((IClientChannel)serviceProxy);
var prevOpContext = OperationContext.Current; // Optional if there's no way this might already be set
OperationContext.Current = opContext;

try
{
    var result = await serviceProxy.getSomethingAsync("id").ConfigureAwait(false);

    // cleanup
    factory.Close();
    ((ICommunicationObject)serviceProxy).Close();
}
finally
{
  // *** ENSURE CLEANUP *** \\
  CloseCommunicationObjects((ICommunicationObject)serviceProxy, factory);
  OperationContext.Current = prevOpContext; // Or set to null if you didn't capture the previous context
}

But your requirements will probably be different. So here are the resources you might need to help you connecting to your WCF service are here:

The tests helped me a lot but they where somewhat hard to find (I had help, thank you Zhenlan for answering my wcf github issue)

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