WCF can't connect to an ASMX Web Service

Question

Hi All

I'm using WCF to connect to a remote web service (asmx) for testing at this point. The remote web service is unsecured for now (no https, no user name, password). I can add the WCF service reference, and all the classes are generated ok. When I make the call to the webservice, it just hangs.

So I can connect with the SOAP UI tool and return data just fine. I'm thinking it is something wrong with my binding. Anyone see anything I'm missing?

  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <!-- Need to change some settings here for HTTPS and Basic Auth when those go online-->
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="ServiceSoap" 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://&lt;snip&gt;/Service.asmx"
          binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="ServiceSoap"
          contract="PRIOrderService.ServiceSoap" name="ServiceSoap" />
    </client>
  </system.serviceModel>

Answer 1

Requesting the wsdl endpoint does not trigger a creation of the instance of your service. If you are using a custom service host factory look at that, otherwise look at the constructor of your service implementation or debug the service method itself.