Specify IP address of WCF endpoint at runtime
- by Mikey Cee
I have a bunch of remote machines all running the same WCF service over HTTP. I have a central configuration utility that needs to decide at runtime which of these to connect to. I do not want to define all the endpoints in the configuration file because this is all database driven.
I naively tried this:
CustomerServiceClient GetClientForIPAddress(string ipAddress)
{
string address = String.Format("http://{0}/customerservice.svc", ipAddress);
var client = new CustomerServiceClient("?", address);
return client;
}
where CustomerServiceClient is my service reference proxy class, but (unsurprisingly) it gave me the following error:
Could not find endpoint element with
name '?' and contract
'SkyWalkerCustomerService.ICustomerService'
in the ServiceModel client
configuration section. This might be
because no configuration file was
found for your application, or because
no endpoint element matching this name
could be found in the client element.
So how do I declare an endpoint at runtime and point my service reference to it?
.NET 3.5
