Consuming WCF Rest services with visual studio 2010?

Question

Hi there,

I am used to using soap services where you add a service reference and it creates strong types classes (return types) of each method..

Of course REST doesn't work like this

How do i consume a WCF REST Service?

Is there no way to use strongly typed classes for the return types?

I am using Visual Studio 2010 specifically

Any ideas or thoughts really appreciated

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/651273/is-there-a-wcf-rest-c-client-generation-tool. If you own both the service and the client, you can reuse the contracts and instantiate an client channel with WebChannelFactory.