How to create proxy to consume WCF service ?
You want to consume a WCF service, but don’t want to Add hard reference of the service’s .svc file.
You can do it by this way.
You can add a hard reference of the WCF service’s .svc file in a temporary project, and get its ServiceContract and DataContract classes.
If you have the source code of WCF service, you can get them directly from the source code.
Then, paste the ServiceContract and DataContract classes in your client project.
[ServiceContract]
public interface IHelloWorldService
{
[OperationContract]
string GetMessage(string name);
[OperationContract]
string GetPersonCompleteInfo(Person person);
}
[DataContract]
public class Person
{
[DataMember]
public int Age { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Sex { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
Create WCF channel directly with the WCF service address and service interface.
Then you can consume the service without any .svc file reference.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
WSHttpBinding basicHttpBinding = new WSHttpBinding();
EndpointAddress endpointAddress = new EndpointAddress("http://localhost:8080/HostDevServer/HelloWorldService.svc");
var service = new ChannelFactory<IHelloWorldService>(basicHttpBinding, endpointAddress).CreateChannel();
var message = service.GetMessage("hello world!");
Console.WriteLine(message);
}
Enjoy coding!
