In order to use a WCF service, you will need to create a WCF client proxy. In Visual Studio, you would right-click on the project and pick the “Add Service Reference” from the context menu. Type in the URL you want to connect to, and if that service is running, you should get a client … Read more
For anyone suffering from the same problem; I’ve found a solution for consuming the web service as a Service Reference (WCF). The BasicHttpBinding.MessageEncoding property needs setting to “Mtom”. Here’s a snippet of the required config setting: <configuration> <system.serviceModel> <bindings> <basicHttpBinding> <binding messageEncoding=”Mtom”> </binding> </basicHttpBinding> </bindings> </system.serviceModel> </configuration> Edit: If you are having the same issue … Read more
Check out the WCF Extras on Codeplex – it’s an easy extension library for WCF which offers – among other things – custom SOAP headers. Another option is to use WCF message contracts in your WCF service – this also easily allows you to define and set WCF SOAP headers. [MessageContract] public class BankingTransaction { … Read more
So your endpoint address defined in your first example is incomplete. You must also define endpoint identity as shown in client configuration. In code you can try this: EndpointIdentity spn = EndpointIdentity.CreateSpnIdentity(“host/mikev-ws”); var address = new EndpointAddress(“http://id.web/Services/EchoService.svc”, spn); var client = new EchoServiceClient(address); litResponse.Text = client.SendEcho(“Hello World”); client.Close(); Actual working final version by valamas EndpointIdentity … Read more
You’ll have to use the ChannelFactory class. Here’s an example: var myBinding = new BasicHttpBinding(); var myEndpoint = new EndpointAddress(“http://localhost/myservice”); using (var myChannelFactory = new ChannelFactory<IMyService>(myBinding, myEndpoint)) { IMyService client = null; try { client = myChannelFactory.CreateChannel(); client.MyServiceOperation(); ((ICommunicationObject)client).Close(); myChannelFactory.Close(); } catch { (client as ICommunicationObject)?.Abort(); } } Related resources: How to: Use the ChannelFactory
Actually, although I blogged (see Luke’s answer), I think this is better than my IDisposable wrapper. Typical code: Service<IOrderService>.Use(orderService=> { orderService.PlaceOrder(request); }); (edit per comments) Since Use returns void, the easiest way to handle return values is via a captured variable: int newOrderId = 0; // need a value for definite assignment Service<IOrderService>.Use(orderService=> { newOrderId … Read more