I’m building an error tracking service which all our future web project will report to, so we can track and tag all our various systems problems from one place- this is currently done with email which is a bit of a nightmare!
According to Microsoft, traditional ASMX web services are now considered “Legacy technology” (!) so I thought I would buite the bullet and build the new services using WCF.
This was fairly painless until I tried to consume the web service in some old .net 1.1 web apps- when trying to add the web reference I received this error message;
Web ReferenceslocalhostReference.map(1): Custom tool warning: DiscoCodeGenerator unable to initialize code generator. No code generated.
I found a great article over on the MSDN – and all it takes is a small change to the web.config, fiddling with, my old friend, the httpBindings.
I had to swap out the default bindings put in by .net;
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="HachetteErrorTracker.IErrorLog">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
For this one;
<endpoint
address=""
binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingNamespace="http://errortracker.localhost/"
contract="HachetteErrorTracker.IErrorLog"
/>
How to: Configure WCF Service to Interoperate with ASP.NET Web Service Clients.
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