Question

I have created a WCF webservice using WCF Service Application template in VS 2008.
In the same solution i have created a web application project and added the web reference to the service where i gave the service url.

Now when i call the service method from my web application project, i get a timeout, i cannot get the O/P from calling service method. Here’s my code i am using to call method from service:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using WebApplicationClient.WCFService;

namespace WebApplicationClient
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Service1 svc1 = new Service1();
            String ex = svc1.GetData(1,true);


        }
    }
}

EDIT:
I have figured out the problem. I added a Web Reference to the service rather than the Service reference and it worked.Can anyone tell me the difference b/w the two?

Also when i run the WCF service , i get this message:
Run this command from Command window:

 svcutil.exe http://localhost:1787/Service1.svc?wsdl

But svcutil.exe is not recognised by the OS. I guess it is placed somehwere and i have to give the path also, is this the problem?Where can i find this?

Answer 1

But svcutil.exe is not recognised by the OS. I guess it is placed
somehwere and i have to give the path also, is this the problem?Where
can i find this?

SvcUtil.exe is the utility that helps to create proxy for a wcf service. You can easily access the utility by opening the Visual Studio command prompt not the windows command prompt.

If you have installed VS in C drive it would be located here.

C:\Program Files\ Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC

This thread talks about the difference between Add Web Reference and Add Service Reference. In your case I would suggest to use Service Reference not Web Reference.