Question

I am creating a Asp.net Webapi for our services . On the other hand I have to pull some data from an existing WCF Service.

I am creating a web reference in my asp.net webapi project . But it seems there is no proxy generated.

I tried with VS 2012 RC and then with VS 2010. I can not reference it from my model/controller any where in the project. Is there a different way of creating proxy in MVC webapi. I dont know what is wrong.

Does it has to do something with like i can not consume a wcf service from a rest service

What is that i am missing here .

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try adding a service reference rather than a web referance, which is used for the deprecated ASP.NET web services (ASMX).

I just tried this and it works as expected. Here is what I did:

1. Created a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application and selected the Web API project template.
2. Added a WCF Service Application project to the solution. Remember to build this before adding a service reference to it.
3. In the Web APi project, I added a service reference to the WCF service.

4. Replaced the code in ValuesController.Get(int id) with

   public string Get(int id)
   {
       var serviceReference1 = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client();
       return serviceReference1.GetData(id);
   }
   

When browsing

http://localhost:<port>/api/values/2

I receive

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><string>You entered: 2</string>