Creating a client to consume the WCF service

Now that we have successfully created and hosted a WCF service, we need a client to consume the service. We will create a C# client application to consume HelloWorldService.

In this section, we will create a Windows console application to call the WCF service.

Creating the client application project

First, we need to create a console application project and add it to the solution. Follow these steps to create the console application:

  1. In the Solution Explorer, right-click on the solution HelloWorld and select Add | New Project… from the context menu. The Add New Project dialog window should appear, as shown in the following screenshot:
  2. Select Visual C# | Console Application as the template, change the project ...

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