WCF Configuration without a config file

Does anyone know of a good example of how to expose a WCF service programatically without the use of a configuration file? I know the service object model is much richer now with WCF, so I know it's possible. I just have not seen an example of how to do so. Conversely, I would like to see how consuming without a configuration file is done as well.

Before anyone asks, I have a very specific need to do this without configuration files. I would normally not recommend such a practice, but as I said, there is a very specific need in this case.

Consuming a web service without a config file is very simple, as I've discovered. You simply need to create a binding object and address object and pass them either to the constructor of the client proxy or to a generic ChannelFactory instance. You can look at the default app.config to see what settings to use, then create a static helper method somewhere that instantiates your proxy:

internal static MyServiceSoapClient CreateWebServiceInstance() {
    BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding();
    // I think most (or all) of these are defaults--I just copied them from app.config:
    binding.SendTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes( 1 );
    binding.OpenTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes( 1 );
    binding.CloseTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes( 1 );
    binding.ReceiveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes( 10 );
    binding.AllowCookies = false;
    binding.BypassProxyOnLocal = false;
    binding.HostNameComparisonMode = HostNameComparisonMode.StrongWildcard;
    binding.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Text;
    binding.TextEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
    binding.TransferMode = TransferMode.Buffered;
    binding.UseDefaultWebProxy = true;
    return new MyServiceSoapClient( binding, new EndpointAddress( "http://www.mysite.com/MyService.asmx" ) );
}

If you are interested in eliminating the usage of the System.ServiceModel section in the web.config for IIS hosting, I have posted an example of how to do that here (http://bejabbers2.blogspot.com/2010/02/wcf-zero-config-in-net-35-part-ii.html). I show how to customize a ServiceHost to create both metadata and wshttpbinding endpoints. I do it in a general purpose way that doesn't require additional coding. For those who aren't immediately upgrading to .NET 4.0 this can be pretty convenient.

Here, this is complete and working code. I think it will help you a lot. I was searching and never finds a complete code that's why I tried to put complete and working code. Good luck.

public class ValidatorClass
{
    WSHttpBinding BindingConfig;
    EndpointIdentity DNSIdentity;
    Uri URI;
    ContractDescription ConfDescription;

    public ValidatorClass()
    {  
        // In constructor initializing configuration elements by code
        BindingConfig = ValidatorClass.ConfigBinding();
        DNSIdentity = ValidatorClass.ConfigEndPoint();
        URI = ValidatorClass.ConfigURI();
        ConfDescription = ValidatorClass.ConfigContractDescription();
    }


    public void MainOperation()
    {
         var Address = new EndpointAddress(URI, DNSIdentity);
         var Client = new EvalServiceClient(BindingConfig, Address);
         Client.ClientCredentials.ServiceCertificate.Authentication.CertificateValidationMode = X509CertificateValidationMode.PeerTrust;
         Client.Endpoint.Contract = ConfDescription;
         Client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "companyUserName";
         Client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "companyPassword";
         Client.Open();

         string CatchData = Client.CallServiceMethod();

         Client.Close();
    }



    public static WSHttpBinding ConfigBinding()
    {
        // ----- Programmatic definition of the SomeService Binding -----
        var wsHttpBinding = new WSHttpBinding();

        wsHttpBinding.Name = "BindingName";
        wsHttpBinding.CloseTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);
        wsHttpBinding.OpenTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);
        wsHttpBinding.ReceiveTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);
        wsHttpBinding.SendTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1);
        wsHttpBinding.BypassProxyOnLocal = false;
        wsHttpBinding.TransactionFlow = false;
        wsHttpBinding.HostNameComparisonMode = HostNameComparisonMode.StrongWildcard;
        wsHttpBinding.MaxBufferPoolSize = 524288;
        wsHttpBinding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 65536;
        wsHttpBinding.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Text;
        wsHttpBinding.TextEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
        wsHttpBinding.UseDefaultWebProxy = true;
        wsHttpBinding.AllowCookies = false;

        wsHttpBinding.ReaderQuotas.MaxDepth = 32;
        wsHttpBinding.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = 16384;
        wsHttpBinding.ReaderQuotas.MaxStringContentLength = 8192;
        wsHttpBinding.ReaderQuotas.MaxBytesPerRead = 4096;
        wsHttpBinding.ReaderQuotas.MaxNameTableCharCount = 16384;

        wsHttpBinding.ReliableSession.Ordered = true;
        wsHttpBinding.ReliableSession.InactivityTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);
        wsHttpBinding.ReliableSession.Enabled = false;

        wsHttpBinding.Security.Mode = SecurityMode.Message;
        wsHttpBinding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Certificate;
        wsHttpBinding.Security.Transport.ProxyCredentialType = HttpProxyCredentialType.None;
        wsHttpBinding.Security.Transport.Realm = "";

        wsHttpBinding.Security.Message.NegotiateServiceCredential = true;
        wsHttpBinding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = MessageCredentialType.UserName;
        wsHttpBinding.Security.Message.AlgorithmSuite = System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityAlgorithmSuite.Basic256;
        // ----------- End Programmatic definition of the SomeServiceServiceBinding --------------

        return wsHttpBinding;

    }

    public static Uri ConfigURI()
    {
        // ----- Programmatic definition of the Service URI configuration -----
        Uri URI = new Uri("http://localhost:8732/Design_Time_Addresses/TestWcfServiceLibrary/EvalService/");

        return URI;
    }

    public static EndpointIdentity ConfigEndPoint()
    {
        // ----- Programmatic definition of the Service EndPointIdentitiy configuration -----
        EndpointIdentity DNSIdentity = EndpointIdentity.CreateDnsIdentity("tempCert");

        return DNSIdentity;
    }


    public static ContractDescription ConfigContractDescription()
    {
        // ----- Programmatic definition of the Service ContractDescription Binding -----
        ContractDescription Contract = ContractDescription.GetContract(typeof(IEvalService), typeof(EvalServiceClient));

        return Contract;
    }
}

It is not easy on the server side..

For client side, you can use ChannelFactory