Host A WCF Service From A Client

> First of all for creating WCF Service in Visual Studio, please follow below link
> How To Create A WCF Servcie In Visual Studio
> In order to consume this WCF Service, we needs to Host in IIS.
> And then we will call this Hosted WCF Service on the client Application.
> WCF Services are absolutely platform independent. We can call this in any language.
> Hosting a WCF Service on IIS is similar to Hosting a Website on IIS.
> You can find the content about Hosting a Web App On IIS in the following link.
> Hosting A WCF Service On IIS From Visual Studio

Use A WCF Service From A Client

> After hosting the WCF Service, its time to Consume the Service in an Appliaction.
> 1. Copy the Hosted WCf Service URL from IIS.
> 2. Then Right Click on the Client Project and click on the Add Service Reference link.



> On the newly opened window provide the WCF Service Address and click Go Button.
> This will fetch and list the Services and Operations from IIS automatically.
> Provide a suitable name under Namespace for the Service Reference as in the above image.
> Now click the OK Button for adding the WCF Service to the Solution as shown below.



> After adding the WCf Service, now we can call the service on code as shown below.



> Create an Instance of the Service Reference and Invoke the Preferred Method.
> Created Instance would list all the methods in the WCF Service.
> In the above example, we have called the GetData method which returns a string value.
> By this way we can call a WCF service in a Client Application.

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