Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

Consuming a WCF Service

You consume a WCF service from a .NET client by adding a service reference to your project. Visual Studio then generates a proxy class for calling your service. You use this proxy class to call your service from your .NET client application. Your client application could be a website, any variety of Windows application, or an application on another platform. Let’s look at an example of calling WCF from an ASP.NET MVC site.

Note

ASP.NET 5 does not currently have the concept of a Service Reference (at least at the time of writing). Therefore, the example that follows uses an MVC application that targets ASP.NET MVC 6 (and not ASP.NET 5). This allows you to see the Service Reference concept in action.

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