Skip to main content

ASP.NET Core–Configuring a WCF service

In an ASP.NET Core application(using the full .NET framework) we had to consume a WCF service.

Should be easy right? Unfortunately it turned out that be more work than I expected. In a first post I explained the steps how to generate a Client Proxy, this post is about  setting the configuration.

WCF configuration can be a daunting beast with a lot of options and things that can go wrong. The code generated by the proxy hardcodes (some part) of the configuration in the WCF proxy and provides you a partial method to override it but that’s not the approach we want to take.

I know we’ll host the WCF service in IIS, so adding a web.config and putting the configuration logic over there sounds nice…

Let’s try that:

  • Open the generated proxy reference file  and remove the call to Service1Client.GetDefaultBinding() and Service1Client.GetDefaultEndpointAddress() in the constructor. (Note: this is only for testing purposes)

image

  • Right click on your ASP.NET Core project and add a web.config file.
  • Right click on the web.config and choose Edit WCF configuration.

image

  • Go to the Client section and choose Create a New Client…

image

  • Follow the steps through the Wizard. After completing it you should have something like this inside your web.config:
  • Let’s now try to create a client proxy instance and execute a call:
  • Unfortunately, this didn’t work and we end with an exception when we try to run our application:

image

  • If that doesn’t work, where should we put this configuration? (And yes, I know I can do everything through code but that is not what I want here).
    • An ASP.NET Core project is an executable behind the scenes. The only thing that IIS does is forward the request to Kestrel that invokes the DotNet process.
    • This executable has its own configuration file that is generated for you out of the box behind the scenes.

image

  • If you want to change this config, you have to add an app.config instead of a web.config to your project. Let’s just rename the file, rebuild our project and try again…

image

  • This time it works!

image

Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

.NET 8–Keyed/Named Services

A feature that a lot of IoC container libraries support but that was missing in the default DI container provided by Microsoft is the support for Keyed or Named Services. This feature allows you to register the same type multiple times using different names, allowing you to resolve a specific instance based on the circumstances. Although there is some controversy if supporting this feature is a good idea or not, it certainly can be handy. To support this feature a new interface IKeyedServiceProvider got introduced in .NET 8 providing 2 new methods on our ServiceProvider instance: object? GetKeyedService(Type serviceType, object? serviceKey); object GetRequiredKeyedService(Type serviceType, object? serviceKey); To use it, we need to register our service using one of the new extension methods: Resolving the service can be done either through the FromKeyedServices attribute: or by injecting the IKeyedServiceProvider interface and calling the GetRequiredKeyedServic...
Read more

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.
Read more

Kubernetes–Limit your environmental impact

Reducing the carbon footprint and CO2 emission of our (cloud) workloads, is a responsibility of all of us. If you are running a Kubernetes cluster, have a look at Kube-Green . kube-green is a simple Kubernetes operator that automatically shuts down (some of) your pods when you don't need them. A single pod produces about 11 Kg CO2eq per year( here the calculation). Reason enough to give it a try! Installing kube-green in your cluster The easiest way to install the operator in your cluster is through kubectl. We first need to install a cert-manager: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/cert-manager/cert-manager/releases/download/v1.14.5/cert-manager.yaml Remark: Wait a minute before you continue as it can take some time before the cert-manager is up & running inside your cluster. Now we can install the kube-green operator: kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kube-green/kube-green/releases/latest/download/kube-green.yaml Now in the namespace where we want t...
Read more