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Asked: 2026-06-15T14:32:55+00:00

I’ve this WCF service hosted in a Sharepoint 2010 web application. The WCF has

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I’ve this WCF service hosted in a Sharepoint 2010 web application. The WCF has been created using the following factory:

Factory="Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Services.MultipleBaseAddressWebServiceHostFactory, Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerRuntime, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

As you can see this is creating a REST-type service. Because we needed to consume it client-side via jQuery.

Now we also need to access it from a .NET project (WinForms). I’ve tried adding the Service Reference in VS but it doesn’t find anything. I guess that’s because it’s not a SOAP service right?

So how can I consume it in C# .NET project without breaking the existing jQuery support?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, Add Service Reference does not work for WCF REST services. You have a couple of options here:

    1. Add another endpoint to your service, a SOAP-based one, so that you’ll be able to use Add Service Reference on your client. I don’t know exactly what the MultipleBaseAddressWebServiceHostFactory does, but you could look how it creates its endpoint(s) and recreate that in another factory – and then add the additional SOAP endpoint
    2. Another alternative is to share the interface definition (the service contract plus any existing data contracts) between the service implementation and the .NET client. Having that interface you can use the WebChannelFactory<T> to create a proxy to the REST service (like you’d have one for a SOAP service).
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