How to configure WCF in a separate dll project

asp.net wcf service-reference wcf-configuration
edosoft picture edosoft · Feb 2, 2009 · Viewed 12k times · Source

I'm developing a web application (ASP.NET 3.5) that will consume a number of web services. I have created a separate dll-project for each web service: these projects contains the service reference and client code.

However, the calling website MUST have the <system.serviceModel> information (the <bindings> and <client> nodes) in it's web.config, even though this information is also in the dll's app.config file! I have tried copying the serviceclass.dll.config over to the bin directory of the website, but this didn't help.

Is there any way to centralize the configuration of a WCF client?

Answer

codybartfast picture codybartfast · Feb 2, 2009

I've only limited WCF experience, all with BasicHTTP bindings. But I'm allergic to WCF's xml files and have managed to avoid them thus far. I don't recomend this generally but I put the configuration details in my apps existing configuration store and then apply them programatically. E.g. With a Web service proxy I use the constructor for the Client that takes 'bindings'and 'endpoint' and programatically apply the settings to the bindings & endpoint.

A more elegent solution appears to be descibed here: Reading WCF Configuration from a Custom Location, but I haven't tried it yet.

Related questions

Best way to manage multiple Service References in .NET

I have a C# ASP.NET project with 15 WCF/ASMX Service References. Each service is deployed to three different servers; test, staging and live. Often we need to change the URLs of these service references to different servers, to be …

Read More
WCF - How to Increase Message Size Quota

I have a WCF Service which returns 1000 records from database to the client. I have an ASP.NET WCF client (I have added service reference in asp.net web application project to consume WCF). I get the following message when …

Read More
The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document in a Silverlight application

Ok, what I have: Visual Studio 2010 RC, W7 x64, started a new project type of Silverlight application. Hosting the Silverlight application in a ASP.NET Web Application Project. Silverlight Version 3.0. Added a LinqToSQL Class, a WCF Service, a Winform Tester …

Read More