Comments on: Standalone WcfTestClient

By: Paulo César de França Viana pcfviana

Paulo César de França Viana pcfviana — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:58:23 +0000

Very good. It helped me today in 2018. Can you believe it?

By: Cable Guy (@cdcableguy)

Cable Guy (@cdcableguy) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:19:48 +0000

Thanks a lot for providing this, I have to test a couple of web services and looking for an alternative to Storm app. I will try it!!

By: Andre Margono

Andre Margono — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 07:22:49 +0000

In reply to Krzysztof Gapski.Seems like you need the WcfTestClient that comes from Visual Studio 2013. Mine was coming from 2010.

By: Krzysztof Gapski

Krzysztof Gapski — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 07:10:30 +0000

In reply to Krishna Nadiminti (@knadiminti).I have "svcutil.exe has stopped working" while want to invoke service like You said in Windows Server 2012 without .net 3. I changed .configs, tried with ?singleWsdl. Any idea?

By: Krishna Nadiminti (@knadiminti)

Krishna Nadiminti (@knadiminti) — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:32:31 +0000

Hi there,

Just for those who try this on a Windows Server 2012+ machine or just a machine without .NET 3.5 installed, I had to make a few config changes to get it to work:

1. Update all .exe.configs in there to use .NET 4.5

2. Update all exe configs in there to set legacy CAS policy:

and then, finally the WCFTestClient app was able to run.

Also, when I point it to a WCF service URL which doesn’t publish metadata, it complains saying metadata is not published.

To get around that, when ‘adding a service’ via WcfTestClient, just append ?singleWsdl to it
and you should be able to invoke it.