Consuming WCF Service in WP7

In this post i will show you the very basic way of calling WCF service in WP7 application and persisting the service url in the isolated storage of mobile. In WCF there are two modes to configure endpoints i.e. Imperative and Declarative. Imperative means developer can configure the endpoints through code whereas in the declarative mode, it is configure in the configuration file.

Whats the problem?
We came to the question that suppose we have provided a WP7 application to one of our client. And that application consumes some WCF service. Suppose the service endpoint address is changed, now how can the client configure the endpoint address on his mobile/device.

Every mobile has their persistence storage media. And each application gets the quota where you can store some configuration settings or data to utilize where applicable. In WP7 there is a class called IsolatedStorage through which developer can get an access to the Application store.

Below i have shown a way to use the Isolated Storage and consume WCF service from WP7 mobile application.

Requirements: WP7 SDK, Visual Studio 2010.

Steps:
1. Open Visual Studio and create a new project of “Windows Phone Application”

2. Add another WCF Service Application Project.

3. Open the WP7 project and in the MainPage.xaml form add two textboxes for defining Server Name and Port, add a button to get the data from WCF service and the textbox to display the Service result.

4. Open the Service Application project and define operation contract named GetData as shown below.

namespace TestService
{
// NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the interface name "IService1" in both code and config file together.
[ServiceContract]
public interface ITestService
{

[OperationContract]
string GetData();
}
}

namespace TestService
{
// NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the class name "Service1" in code, svc and config file together.
public class WCFTestService : ITestService
{
public string GetData()
{
return "Hello world!";
}

}
}

5. Add reference to this service in WP7 project

6. Now in the Button click event we need to call the service, following snippet shows the way to store the Server name and port in the isolated storage of mobile device and consume the service.

private void btn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
String strUrl = "http://" + txtServerName.Text + ":" + txtPort.Text + "/WCFTestService.svc";

IsolatedStorageFile file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
if (file.FileExists("Sources.res"))
{
file.DeleteFile("Sources.res");

}
IsolatedStorageFileStream fs = file.CreateFile("Sources.res");
System.IO.StreamWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter(fs);
writer.Write(strUrl);
writer.Close();
fs.Close();
fs.Dispose();

System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress epa = new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress(strUrl);
Services.TestService.TestServiceClient client = new Services.TestService.TestServiceClient("BasicHttpBinding_ITestService", epa);
client.GetDataCompleted += new EventHandler(client_GetDataCompleted);
client.GetDataAsync();
}


void client_GetDataCompleted(object sender, Services.TestService.GetDataCompletedEventArgs e)
{
textBox3.Text = e.Result;
}

7. In the MainPage constructor add following snippet to read the Server Name and Port from the isolated saved earlier.

// Constructor
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
IsolatedStorageFile file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
string[] strArr=file.GetFileNames();
if (file.FileExists("Sources.res"))
{
IsolatedStorageFileStream fs = file.OpenFile("Sources.res", System.IO.FileMode.Open);
System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(fs);
String str = reader.ReadLine();
textBox1.Text = str.Substring(str.IndexOf("/") + 2, str.LastIndexOf(":") - 1 - str.IndexOf("/") - 1);
textBox2.Text = str.Substring(str.LastIndexOf(":") + 1, 4);
reader.Close();
fs.Close();
fs.Dispose();
}
}

Now run the application, specify the Server Name and Port and then click on the Retrieve Service Data button.

210 thoughts on “Consuming WCF Service in WP7

    • Actually i didn’t edit the default config file and it was the same containing the complete endpoint address which adds up on referencing the service. We cannot remove the endpoint address otherwise it wont behave properly so just in sake we keep the address as it is and then in the code behind generate a new address and connect to it.

  1. Nice post. Thanks.

    You may want to correct your code in below 2 location

    1. client.GetDataAsync();
    I think this need an interger as a parameter

    2. client.GetDataCompleted += new EventHandler(client_GetDataCompleted);
    I think this will be client.GetDataCompleted += new EventHandler(client_GetDataCompleted);

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