Question

I’ve written a WCF service. I have successfully browsed to the service and it says:

You have created a service.

So then I add a reference to it using a the ‘Add Service Reference’ in visual studio. Then I write the following code to consume it….

ServiceReference1.VLSContentServiceClient client = new ServiceReference1.VLSContentServiceClient("VLSContentServiceEndpointBehaviour");
List<ServiceReference1.Category> cats = client.GetCategoriesByGET();

But im getting the error:

Could not find endpoint element with
name
‘VLSContentServiceEndpointBehaviour’
and contract
‘ServiceReference1.IVLSContentService’
in the ServiceModel client
configuration section. This might be
because no configuration file was
found for your application, or because
no endpoint element matching this name
could be found in the client element.

It makes no sense because the argument ‘endPointConfigurationName’ matches what I have set it to in the service. Here is the service configuration:

  <system.serviceModel>

    <services>
      <service behaviorConfiguration="VLSContentServiceBehaviour" name="VLSContentService">
        <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="VLSContentServiceEndpointBehaviour" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="IVLSContentService"/>
      </service>
    </services>

    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="VLSContentServiceBehaviour">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>

      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="VLSContentServiceEndpointBehaviour">
          <webHttp/>
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
    </behaviors>

  </system.serviceModel>

Whats going on?

Answer 1

You are using REST service – client for such service cannot be created with Add service reference. That is only for SOAP services (no webHttpBinding and webHttp behavior). Also once you use SOAP service you don’t pass name of any server side feature to the constructor of the proxy. The proxy constructor expects name of client endpoint from client’s configuration.

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