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How to: Export Metadata from Service Endpoints

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This topic explains how to export metadata from service endpoints.

To export metadata from service endpoints

  1. Create a new Visual Studio Console App Project. Add the code shown in the following steps in the generated Program.cs file within the main() method.

  2. Create a WsdlExporter.

    WsdlExporter exporter = new WsdlExporter();

    Dim exporter As New WsdlExporter()

  3. Set the PolicyVersion property to one of the values from the PolicyVersion enumeration. This sample sets the value to Policy15 which corresponds to WS-Policy 1.5.

    exporter.PolicyVersion = PolicyVersion.Policy15;

    exporter.PolicyVersion = PolicyVersion.Policy15

  4. Create an array of ServiceEndpoint objects.

    ServiceEndpoint [] myServiceEndpoints = new ServiceEndpoint[2];
ContractDescription myDescription = new ContractDescription ("myContract");
myServiceEndpoints[0] = new ServiceEndpoint(myDescription,new BasicHttpBinding(),new EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"));
myServiceEndpoints[1] = new ServiceEndpoint(myDescription,new BasicHttpBinding(),new EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"));

    Dim myServiceEndpoints() As ServiceEndpoint = New ServiceEndpoint(1) {}
Dim myDescription As New ContractDescription("myContract")
myServiceEndpoints(0) = New ServiceEndpoint(myDescription, New BasicHttpBinding(), New EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"))
myServiceEndpoints(1) = New ServiceEndpoint(myDescription, New BasicHttpBinding(), New EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"))

  5. Export metadata for each service endpoint.

    // Export all endpoints for each endpoint in collection.
foreach (ServiceEndpoint endpoint in myServiceEndpoints)
{
    exporter.ExportEndpoint(endpoint);
}

    'Export all endpoints for each endpoint in collection.
For Each endpoint As ServiceEndpoint In myServiceEndpoints
    exporter.ExportEndpoint(endpoint)
Next

  6. Check to make sure no errors occurred during the export process and retrieve the metadata.

    // If there are no errors, get the documents.
MetadataSet metadataDocs = null;
if (exporter.Errors.Count != 0)
{
    metadataDocs = exporter.GetGeneratedMetadata();
}

    'If there are no errors, get the documents.
Dim metadataDocs As MetadataSet
metadataDocs = Nothing

If (exporter.Errors.Count = 0) Then
    metadataDocs = exporter.GetGeneratedMetadata()
End If

  7. You can now use the metadata, such as write it to a file by calling the WriteTo(XmlWriter) method.

Example

The following is the full code listing for this example.

using System;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Description;

namespace WsdlExporterSample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            WsdlExporter exporter = new WsdlExporter();
            exporter.PolicyVersion = PolicyVersion.Policy15;

            ServiceEndpoint [] myServiceEndpoints = new ServiceEndpoint[2];
            ContractDescription myDescription = new ContractDescription ("myContract");
            myServiceEndpoints[0] = new ServiceEndpoint(myDescription,new BasicHttpBinding(),new EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"));
            myServiceEndpoints[1] = new ServiceEndpoint(myDescription,new BasicHttpBinding(),new EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"));

            // Export all endpoints for each endpoint in collection.
            foreach (ServiceEndpoint endpoint in myServiceEndpoints)
            {
                exporter.ExportEndpoint(endpoint);
            }
            // If there are no errors, get the documents.
            MetadataSet metadataDocs = null;
            if (exporter.Errors.Count != 0)
            {
                metadataDocs = exporter.GetGeneratedMetadata();
            }
        }
    }
}

Imports System.ServiceModel
Imports System.ServiceModel.Description

Module Module1

    Sub Main()
        Dim exporter As New WsdlExporter()
        exporter.PolicyVersion = PolicyVersion.Policy15

        Dim myServiceEndpoints() As ServiceEndpoint = New ServiceEndpoint(1) {}
        Dim myDescription As New ContractDescription("myContract")
        myServiceEndpoints(0) = New ServiceEndpoint(myDescription, New BasicHttpBinding(), New EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"))
        myServiceEndpoints(1) = New ServiceEndpoint(myDescription, New BasicHttpBinding(), New EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"))

        'Export all endpoints for each endpoint in collection.
        For Each endpoint As ServiceEndpoint In myServiceEndpoints
            exporter.ExportEndpoint(endpoint)
        Next

        'If there are no errors, get the documents.
        Dim metadataDocs As MetadataSet
        metadataDocs = Nothing

        If (exporter.Errors.Count = 0) Then
            metadataDocs = exporter.GetGeneratedMetadata()
        End If
    End Sub

End Module

Compiling the Code

When compiling Program.cs reference System.ServiceModel.dll.

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