WCF to build SOAP based service

Question

I am trying to find some good tutorials that would show me to create a simple SOAP based service using WCF and deploy it. I have been googling for the past 2 hour and can\'t

Answer 1

REST / SOAP endpoints for a WCF service

You can expose the service in two different endpoints. the SOAP one can use the binding that support SOAP e.g. basicHttpBinding, the RESTful one can use the webHttpBinding. I assume your REST service will be in JSON, in that case, you need to configure the two endpoints with the following behaviour configuration

An example of endpoint configuration in your scenario is

so, the service will be available at

http://www.example.com/soap http://www.example.com/json Apply [WebGet] to the operation contract to make it RESTful. e.g.

public interface ITestService { [OperationContract] [WebGet] string HelloWorld(string text) }

Note, if the REST service is not in JSON, parameters of the operations can not contain complex type. For plain old XML as return format, this is an example that would work both for SOAP and XML.

[ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://test")]
public interface ITestService
{
[OperationContract]
[WebGet(UriTemplate = "accounts/{id}")]
Account[] GetAccount(string id);
}

POX behavior for REST Plain Old XML

Endpoints

Service will be available at

http://www.example.com/soap http://www.example.com/xml
REST request try it in browser,
http://www.example.com/xml/accounts/A123

SOAP request client endpoint configuration for SOAP service after adding the service reference,

in C#

TestServiceClient client = new TestServiceClient();
client.GetAccount("A123");

Another way of doing it is to expose two different service contract and each one with specific configuration. This may generate some duplicates at code level, however at the end of the day, you want to make it working.