Re: Consuming Wcf Service as Web Service

Hi,

 

   When you type in the URL to your WCF service in IE, you should see the following contents appear on the web page:

 

WCF_YourService Service

 

You have created a service.

To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. You can do this using the svcutil.exe tool from the command line with the following syntax:

 

svcutil.exe http://Domain/YourService/YourService.svc?wsdl

This will generate a configuration file and a code file that contains the client class. Add the two files to your client application and use the generated client class to call the Service. For example:

C#

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        YourServiceClient client = new YourServiceClient();

        // Use the 'client' variable to call operations on the service.

        // Always close the client.
        client.Close();
    }
}

 

Visual Basic

Class Test
    Shared Sub Main()
        Dim client As YourServiceClient = New YourServiceClient()
        ' Use the 'client' variable to call operations on the service.

        ' Always close the client.
        client.Close()
    End Sub
End Class

 

   Follow the instructions on the web page to create service stub and the code sample to consume the WCF service in a .NET client application. For Java, I assume you will have to create a web reference in your IDE project and instantiate it in your code.

 

   Good luck,

 

   Daniel.