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POWCF: Controlling service endpoint name in self-hosted service
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copied!<p>I have a WCF service that's hosted in a Windows service. This service needs to run on one of the user's machines, and it will be accessed by a client application residing on a different machine. The service will be exposed over a BasicHttpBinding. The server will be implemented in C# using .NET 4.0. The client will be implemented using .NET 3.5 (external requirements).</p> <p>I have done a few tweaks of the service in order to squeeze the entire WSDL into a single file (rather than multiple XSDs). The procedure to do this is outlined e.g. <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2010/03/16/making-wcf-output-a-single-wsdl-file-for-interop-purposes.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a> .</p> <p>I expose the service over a "localhost" endpoint, i.e.:</p> <pre><code>ServiceHost serviceHost = new ServiceHost(serviceInstance, "http://localhost:8080/..."); </code></pre> <p>Its endpoints are exposed as URIs, relative to the above base address.</p> <p>My problem is that when generating a proxy using VS2010's Add Service Reference, I get a proxy whose default ctor connects to an "http://localhost:8080/..." endpoint. This works fine if the service is hosted on the same machine as the client (during testing, for instance), but obviously fails when the server and client machines are separate: the client machine has no endpoint listening on "http://localhost:8080/...". </p> <p>The WSDL file contains:</p> <pre><code><wsdl:service name="MyService"> <wsdl:port name="BasicHttpBinding_IMyService" binding="tns:BasicHttpBinding_IMyService"> <soap:address location="http://localhost:8080/MyService/IMyService" /> </code></pre> <p>Granted, I could use a different ctor that receives the real hostname to connect to, but given that I generated the client using the host's real address, I kind of expected the client to automatically connect to this endpoint.</p> <p>I saw on several forums that instead of using localhost on the server I could use its hostname or IP. However, the host may have multiple hostnames and/or IPs, and the service would not know which to choose.</p> <p>Is there a way to get the auto-generated proxy to use the "real" server's address (as indicated in the WSDL's URL which was used to create the proxy)?</p>

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