How to consume an external wcf service

Question

User-1868455780 posted

Hi ,

How to consume an external WCF service without adding service reference?

TIA

Vivek

Answer 1

User-1509636757 posted

How to consume an external WCF service without adding service reference?

Open Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt and write command:

svcutil.exe http://www.testxxx.com/XX/Service1.svc?wsdl

This will generate proxy class and you can add it to your project and use it to connect and call service methods.

Reference: How to: Create a Windows Communication Foundation Client | Microsoft Docs

Answer 2

User2103319870 posted

Alternatively you could create the Endpoint and reference using ChannelFactory. 

You can take  a look in to this article for more details : http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/how-to-use-a-wcf-service-without-adding-service-reference/

Answer 3

User-1868455780 posted

Thank you kaushal. its worked!

Answer 4

User1404573039 posted

Hi vivektkk,

I am glad your issue has been resolved, and I would suggest you mark the suggestion from kaushal as answer to close this thread, and then other who run into the same issue would find the solution easily.

Regards,

Tony