Could not find default endpoint element
Solution 1:
"This error can arise if you are calling the service in a class library and calling the class library from another project."
In this case you will need to include the WS configuration settings into the main projects app.config if its a winapp or web.config if its a web app. This is the way to go even with PRISM and WPF/Silverlight.
Solution 2:
I solved this (I think as others may have suggested) by creating the binding and endpoint address instances myself - because I did not want to add new settings to the config files (this is a replacement for some existing library code which is used widely, and previously used an older Web Service Reference etc.), and so I wanted to be able to drop this in without having add new config settings everywhere.
var remoteAddress = new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress(_webServiceUrl);
using (var productService = new ProductClient(new System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding(), remoteAddress))
{
//set timeout
productService.Endpoint.Binding.SendTimeout = new TimeSpan(0,0,0,_webServiceTimeout);
//call web service method
productResponse = productService.GetProducts();
}
Edit
If you are using https then you need to use BasicHttpsBinding
rather than BasicHttpBinding
.
Solution 3:
Having tested several options, I finally solved this by using
contract="IMySOAPWebService"
i.e. without the full namespace in the config. For some reason the full name didn't resolve properly
Solution 4:
I've had this same issue. It turns out that for a web REFERENCE, you have to supply the URL as the first parameter to the constructor:
new WebService.WebServiceSoapClient("http://myservice.com/moo.aspx");
For a new style web SERVICE REFERENCE, you have to supply a name that refers to an endpoint entry in the configuration:
new WebService.WebServiceSoapClient("WebServiceEndpoint");
With a corresponding entry in Web.config
or App.config
:
<client>
<endpoint address="http://myservice.com/moo.aspx"
binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="WebService"
contract="WebService.WebServiceSoap"
name="WebServiceEndpoint" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
Pretty damn hard to remove the tunnel vision on "it worked in an older program"...