SOAP in .NET Core?

Question

How you do SOAP in .NET Core? Are there any equivalents of Apache CXF in .Net Core (not just a simple SOAP client but full featured stack)?

Sorry if this is a very basic question, my search so far doesn't yield any clear answer.

Answer 1

Microsoft currently does not plan to ship a SOAP server side framework for .NET Core. Neither the WCF ServiceHost nor ASMX are available. Too early to tell, which of the non-Microsoft stacks will jump in and be the dominant player.

With the introduction of ASP.NET Web API and the uprising of REST endpoints, WCF was dead. The WCF client is a interop story, not a forward going story (full story here: http://blog.tonysneed.com/2016/01/06/wcf-is-dead-long-live-mvc-6/)

Answer 2

In VS 2017, as of December '17 (v15.5) you can now add a generated WCF client to a service using WSDL from a .NET Standard project using Connected Services. In the Solution Explorer, you can get there from a right-click on "Dependencies" or right-click on the project under "Add..."

Answer 3

Some months ago, due to a limitation WCF clients have (when integrating with a Java Web Service, someone created a response class with the same name as the method and in the same namespace and when the WCF client was sending a request it failed the serialization - can't find the related question in SO) I had to create a SOAP HTTP client that used underline the HttpClient. I eventually released an open source version (https://github.com/gravity00/SimpleSOAPClient) that we are successfully using in production and supports .NET Core and Xamarin applications. Feel free to give it a try. I recommend version 2.0.0-RC03 due to some major improvements since version 1.x.