WCF Service: Publicly available services useful for testing

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Aran Mulholland picture Aran Mulholland · Feb 10, 2011 · Viewed 18.3k times · Source

I need a public WCF service to test against. I would like some basic methods to call. What service should I use. (sidenote: how do I search for publicly available services?)

Im trying this out : sudz code generator and I don't want to have to setup a publicly available service just to test it

Answer

Jerome picture Jerome · Sep 18, 2012

I was looking for some myself and wanted to make sure they were WCF. I found the Bing Maps SOAP Services. In case that link expires, below are the service URLs.

The downside is that you need to create a Bing Maps key and pass it in the web service requests. Trial keys last 90 days. Instructions for generating keys are here.

Geocode Service

Imagery Service

Route Service

Search Service

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