Question

I have an asp.net webforms website and a wcf service. I use jQuery to perform my AJAX operations to/from the WCF service like so:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "192.168.1.24/ServiceMain.svc/" + serviceName,
    dataType: "json",
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
    data: "{}",
    cache: true,
    success: function (json)
    {
       //Success operation here
    },
    error: function ()
    {
        //Error operation here
    }
});

All is fine right now. However, I want to be able to do a testing and production environment, both of which will be hosted on a different server with different IP Addresses.

Clearly, hard-coding the URL to point to the correct WCF service will become a tedious problem if left unchecked. Therefore, I was wondering what was the best approach in retrieving the WCF Service’s URL. I thought about using the web.config file with something like the following:

<%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("SomeWCFKey")%>

However, I am not sure how to correctly reference the address in my web.config file:

<endpoint address="http://192.168.1.24/ServiceMain.svc" 
binding="basicHttpBinding" 
bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IServiceMain" 
contract="ServiceMain.IServiceMain" 
name="BasicHttpBinding_IServiceMain" />

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Answer 1

Hi i think you are actully want to read endpoint address that you can get by this code

private List<string> GetEndpoints() 
{
     var endpointList = new List<string>();
     var config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
     var serviceModel = ServiceModelSectionGroup.GetSectionGroup(config);
      foreach (ChannelEndpointElement endpoint in serviceModel.Client.Endpoints)
     {
         endpointList.Add(endpoint.Address.ToString());
     }
      return endpointList; 
} 

Here is pont that descirpt mroe in detail : Getting WCF Bindings and Behaviors from any config source

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