Content Type text/xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service

Question

I have a problem with a WCF service. I have a console application and I need to consume the service without using app.config, so I had to set the endpoint, etc. by code. I d

Answer 1

For anyone who lands here by searching:

content type 'application/json; charset=utf-8' was not the expected type 'text/xml; charset=utf-8

or some subset of that error:

A similar error was caused in my case by building and running a service without proper attributes. I got this error message when I tried to update the service reference in my client application. It was resolved when I correctly applied [DataContract] and [DataMember] attributes to my custom classes.

This would most likely be applicable if your service was set up and working and then it broke after you edited it.