How to access WCF Service from win32 Application

[ERLN]

How to access WCF service from classic win32 console application(assume VC6)?

[Pete OHanlon]

One way would be to use named pipes. WCF supports NetNamedPipeBinding as a transport. Here's an example of setting it up in WCF:

<service name="MyService"
behaviorConfiguration="MyServiceBehavior">
<endpoint binding="netNamedPipeBinding"
bindingConfiguration="Binding1" contract="IMyService" />
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexNamedPipeBinding"
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
</service>

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[ERLN]

ok fine. How to call the methods of wcf service using named pipes ?

[Pete OHanlon]

Hey - that's VC++ code, something I haven't touched in 7 years now. There should be plenty of samples on how to do this on the web. A quick google found this[^] sample.

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