I am super new to MVC (in fact, this is my first assignment)
So, I have a good webservice running, functional, on my local machine
http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc?wsdl
and In my MVC application, I added a service reference as usual, and then in my Model.cs I am trying this:
using (CodeTrials.UserServicesClient _client = new UserServicesClient())
{
UserWebsite = _client.GetUserWebsite(username);
}
but when I try to run this, I always get the exception endpoint not found
. I can access this from my (different) asp.net project and it works just fine, same code and everything. After some digging around I found this answer I modified my above code to:
BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress("http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc");
using (CodeTrials.UserServicesClient _client = new UserServicesClient(binding, address))
{
UserWebsite = _client.GetUserWebsite(username);
}
but now, I get a new exception: There was no endpoint listening at http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc?wsdl that could accept the message
So I am at my wits end.
I found a similar question but it's not what I am looking for.
Can you please guide me to the right path?
what am I not doing right?
should I shift the consuming of webservice from Model to Controller?
Thanks.
EDIT - This is my config file system.serviceModel
section. I just copy pasted it from the WCF client test gui tool into web.config since it was not being generated by visual studio.
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IUserServices" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://www.codetrials.local/wcf/UserServices.svc/wcf/UserServices.svc"
binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IUserServices"
contract="IUserServices" name="BasicHttpBinding_IUserServices" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>