How to make a UWP that will work with the default

Question

If you create a new project, WCF Service Application C#, it makes a web service and starts it up.

But there is no information on how to actually communicate with it from a client, or how to even write that.

What does the UWP client look like which will communicate with that service?

Answer 1

How to make a UWP that will work with the default WCF Service application

1. Create a default WCF Service application and start it up as you have already did.

2. Create a Universal Windows Blank App by following Create a "Hello, world" app (XAML) in the same solution.

3. Add service reference for your universal app
4. Click Discover, it will default find the wcf service in your solution.Change the namespace to meet your requirement.

5. Add following code to a button click event handle.Then run uwp you will see the GetData Result.

   private async void BtnConnectWcf_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
   {
       ToDoService.Service1Client client = new ToDoService.Service1Client();       
       await new Windows.UI.Popups.MessageDialog(client.GetDataAsync(10).Result.ToString()).ShowAsync();
       await client.CloseAsync();
   }