Question

I’m trying to add a service reference to a RESTful WCF service in Visual Studio 2010.

Actually, Visual Studio 2010 doesn’t discover any service in my solution.

My question is: is this possible using RESTful WCF services?

Answer 1

Are you using the online WCF RESTful Service template to create your RESTful WCF service? This template uses a .cs file instead of a .svc + .svc.cs file. Which seems to make the “Discover Services In Solution” break (Does work against .svc + .asmx services however). A possible work around would be to implement it in the form of .svc + .svc.cs.

I’ve just tested this locally by creating a service using the RESTful template, adding a “WCF Service” using the add new file menu and moving the code from “Service1.cs” in there, and modifying the route table in Global.asax.cs to

RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("TestService", new WebServiceHostFactory(), typeof(TestService)));