Question

I’ve got an MVC solution that hosts a few routes for Web API services. In some situations, I will call these from JavaScript with a simple HTTP get. In others, I want to call them from some .NET code, perhaps another MVC application.

Is there a way to add a service reference to these Web API endpoints and have the tooling create the proxy client and CLR types as it would do with a typical WCF service? I know there is no SOAP involved here but I did read that it is possible, just not how.

Answer 1

No it is REST service. REST service doesn’t expose metadata for creating proxy by service reference (except WCF Data Services which have some special form of metadata). Use Web-API’s HttpClient class to call the service.