Question

I am super new to MVC (in fact, this is my first assignment)

So, I have a good webservice running, functional, on my local machine

http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc?wsdl

and In my MVC application, I added a service reference as usual, and then in my Model.cs I am trying this:

 using (CodeTrials.UserServicesClient _client = new UserServicesClient())
  {
       UserWebsite = _client.GetUserWebsite(username);
  }

but when I try to run this, I always get the exception endpoint not found. I can access this from my (different) asp.net project and it works just fine, same code and everything. After some digging around I found this answer I modified my above code to:

  BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
  EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress("http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc");
 using (CodeTrials.UserServicesClient _client = new UserServicesClient(binding, address))
  {
       UserWebsite = _client.GetUserWebsite(username);
  }

but now, I get a new exception: There was no endpoint listening at http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc?wsdl that could accept the message

So I am at my wits end.

I found a similar question but it’s not what I am looking for.

Can you please guide me to the right path?
what am I not doing right?
should I shift the consuming of webservice from Model to Controller?

Thanks.

EDIT – This is my config file system.serviceModel section. I just copy pasted it from the WCF client test gui tool into web.config since it was not being generated by visual studio.

<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
  <basicHttpBinding>
    <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IUserServices" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
        openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
        allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
        maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
        messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
        useDefaultWebProxy="true">
      <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
          maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
      <security mode="None">
        <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
            realm="" />
        <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
      </security>
    </binding>
  </basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
  <endpoint address="http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc/wcf/UserServices.svc"
      binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IUserServices"
      contract="IUserServices" name="BasicHttpBinding_IUserServices" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>

Answer 1

Reposting from the comments since it turned out to be the answer. 🙂 Turned out that web.debug.config was overwriting the web.config in this case.

Are you sure its in the right web.config then? VS should create it automatically when you add the service reference (it does for me at least). One gotcha is that a normal MVC app has two web.config files, there’s a second one inside the Views folder by default. Other then that, I’m not really sure whats going on.