What is “mexHttpBinding”?

Question

What is \"mexHttpBinding\" in WCF? When should this binding be used in preference to other bindings?

Answer 1

mexHttpBinding is used while adding a new Service Reference in a Project in Visual Studio 2013 (DEBUG) that will consume your WebService (providing the mexHttpBinding). After you've added the Service Reference successfully you might disable the mexHttpBinding.

It is all described in the App.config when you're creating a WCF Service Library Project in the Visual Studio 2013 ( Solution >> Add New Project >> Visual C# >> WCF >> WCF Service Library)