I found the main answer inaccurate so I am responding here. Obviously Microsoft has made an absolute mess out of Channles and Factories and Clients. Documentation is not also helpful since they seem to be there just to cover up the mess so I had to resort to testing. With the performance issues regarding non-cached … Read more
I experienced this error and the problem was resolved by adding the WebHttpBehavior (line 2 below): var factory = new ChannelFactory<IService>(new WebHttpBinding(), uri); factory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Add(new WebHttpBehavior()); var proxy = factory.CreateChannel();
Here’s a helper class that I use to handle channel factories: public class ChannelFactoryManager : IDisposable { private static Dictionary<Type, ChannelFactory> _factories = new Dictionary<Type,ChannelFactory>(); private static readonly object _syncRoot = new object(); public virtual T CreateChannel<T>() where T : class { return CreateChannel<T>(“*”, null); } public virtual T CreateChannel<T>(string endpointConfigurationName) where T : class … Read more
There are 3 basic ways to create a WCF client: Let Visual Studio generate your proxy. This auto generates code that connects to the service by reading the WSDL. If the service changes for any reason you have to regenerate it. The big advantage of this is that it is easy to set up – … Read more