Create WCF client programmatically

wcf-client type-mismatch
eidylon picture eidylon · Oct 30, 2009 · Viewed 20.6k times · Source

I have a website with a Silverlight-enabled WCF service. The service works fine, and I can browse to the WSDL page in the browser with no problems.

Now, I am trying to create a client in a DLL. I need to create the whole client programmatically though, because it is being called in a DLL, which for whatever reason (by design?) won't read the ServiceModel section from its own config file.

So here is my code: 

Dim endp As EndpointAddress = New EndpointAddress("http://www.mydomain.com/licensing/lic.svc")
Dim bind As WSHttpBinding = New WSHttpBinding()
Dim svc = New lnt.licClient(bind, endp)
Dim rsp = svc.CheckIt(key)

But when i call the svc.CheckIt method, i get the following error: 

Content Type application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service http://www.mydomain.com/licensing/lic.svc. 
The client and service bindings may be mismatched.
{"The remote server returned an error: (415) Cannot process the message because the content type 'application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8' was not the expected type 'application/soap+msbin1'.."}

How do I properly create my client so that these are properly "matched"??
Thanks in advance!!!

Answer

eidylon picture eidylon · Oct 30, 2009

Ah --- found it. The ServiceModel section in the website's web.config was set to customBinding. Changed it so it matched what the client was sending, and now it works beautifully.

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