Create WCF client programmatically

Question

I have a website with a Silverlight-enabled WCF service. The service works fine, and I can browse to the WSDL page in the browser with no problems.

Now, I am trying to create a client in a DLL. I need to create the whole client programmatically though, because it is being called in a DLL, which for whatever reason (by design?) won't read the ServiceModel section from its own config file.

So here is my code:

Dim endp As EndpointAddress = New EndpointAddress("http://www.mydomain.com/licensing/lic.svc")
Dim bind As WSHttpBinding = New WSHttpBinding()
Dim svc = New lnt.licClient(bind, endp)
Dim rsp = svc.CheckIt(key)

But when i call the svc.CheckIt method, i get the following error:

Content Type application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 was not supported by service http://www.mydomain.com/licensing/lic.svc. 
The client and service bindings may be mismatched.
{"The remote server returned an error: (415) Cannot process the message because the content type 'application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8' was not the expected type 'application/soap+msbin1'.."}

How do I properly create my client so that these are properly "matched"??
Thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

Ah --- found it. The ServiceModel section in the website's web.config was set to customBinding. Changed it so it matched what the client was sending, and now it works beautifully.

Answer 2

I ran into this same issue. More spefically my fix was to update the type of bindings I was using. I was using wsHttpBindings instead of basicHttpBindings. This was causing failures as wsHttpBindings uses SOAP 1.2 while basicHttpBindings use SOAP 1.1 and the service I was using required SOAP 1.1