in wcf service not able to get the wsdl

Question

i have an service been hosted in iis 7, in windows7 when i type the url http://192.160.11.13/Employee/Service1.svc i can see the below information.

svcutil.exe http://192.160.11.13/Employee/Service1.svc?wsdl

This will generate a configuration file and a code file that contains the client class. Add the two files to your client application and use the generated client class to call the Service. For example:

C#

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Service1Client client = new Service1Client();

        // Use the 'client' variable to call operations on the service.

        // Always close the client.
        client.Close();
    }
}

when i type to get the wsdl http://192.160.11.13/Employee/Service1.svc?wsdl i am not getting the wsdl instead i am getting this error message HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found.

what i am missing here, please let me know so that i can generate the wsdl

Thanks Prince

Can you post your web.config and hosting code for the service? — Jeff

Shiraz Bhaiji Shiraz Bhaiji · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-18T13:16:59

The error you are getting is http 404, which means "file not found".

There could be several reasons for this:

The service is not running
httpget is not allowed in the web.config
the mex endpoint is not set up in the web.config
you are not wusing the correct url

Before you use the svcutil make sure that you can access the wsdl file through the browser.

in wcf service not able to get the wsdl

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