Question

I am building a simple WCF service that has to return some data from an SQL table. When i run the project i get the following error:

Failed to invoke the service. Possible causes: The service is offline or inaccessible; the client-side configuration does not match the proxy; the existing proxy is invalid. Refer to the stack trace for more detail. You can try to recover by starting a new proxy, restoring to default configuration, or refreshing the service

If i comment all the SQL part and send some static data everything is working fine.
This is the function that is giving me headache :

public Client getClient(int idClient)
{
    Client c = new Client();
    SqlConnection sql = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=GRIGORE\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=testWCF;Integrated Security=True");
    sql.Open();

    SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("Select * from Clienti where id = " + idClient);
    SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
    if (dr.Read())
    {
        c.idClient = int.Parse(dr["id"].ToString());
        c.numeClient = dr["nume"].ToString();
    }

    dr.Close();
    sql.Close();

    return c;
}

Ideas ?

Answer 1

You’re not setting the Connection property of your SqlCommand instance. You need to do this:

    SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("Select * from Clienti where id = " + idClient);
    cmd.Connection = sql;  // added Connection property initialization
    SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

Or you can just inject this into your constructor:

    SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("...your query text", sql);