Using 3rd party wcf service

[kss444]

Hello all,

I have just created a new web project from VS 2010 and I took the default page and added a button.

Upon clicking the button in the code behind I want to make a call to a 3rd party wcf service. This service is free you just need to register with their site which is also free.

Here is their service:

http://www.expressupdateusa.com/api/session.svc

I add this to my web application using the "Add Service Reference".

I don't know how to go about using it. In the button click I have code:
// ExpressUpdateSession.SessionClient sc = new ExpressUpdateSession.SessionClient(basicHTTPBindin g,endPointAddress );

ExpressUpdateSession.BeginSessionResponse objExpressSession = new ExpressUpdateSession.BeginSessionResponse();

ExpressUpdateSession.SessionClient scl = new ExpressUpdateSession.SessionClient();
scl.BeginSession("username","password1");

Before when I ran the code I got an error:
The Address property on ChannelFactory.Endpoint was null. The ChannelFactory's Endpoint must have a valid Address specified.
So I added the address="

http://www.expressupdateusa.com/api/session.svc

to the end point that it created.

Now I am getting the error:
The CustomBinding on the ServiceEndpoint with contract 'ISession' lacks a TransportBindingElement. Every binding must have at least one binding element that derives from TransportBindingElement

Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I thought it was fairly easy to use web services. I've never had problems when I create my own.

Thanks,
KS.


Ordinary Programmer

 

[kss444]

Found the error of my ways, and it happens to be the 3rd parties service is broken. Go figure.

Ordinary Programmer