I don't know anyone who has successfully got WCF working in Umbraco. There's been quite a few posts on here about it but no one seems to have made it work.

Thanks slace.

I think as long as user controls can be used in Umbraco, WCF services should work fine.

To make it clear:-

1. User controls retrieve data using the methods that are exposed through WCF services (User control developed using Visual studio)
2. User control will be used in Umbraco

Let me know

I think .asmx (traditional web services) works fine within Umbraco?  I noticed the .asmx file in installed folders.

Your help and insight is appreciated.

Hi Slace

Good news. WCF services works with Umbraco. This is how we implemented this.

1. Create a ASP.NET WCF Service and publish it.
2. Take the service dll(Assembly) and copy into Umbraco bin directory.
3. Developed a user control where the control reads the data from the above WCF Service.
4. Migrate custom control to Umbraco custom controls folder
5. Copy WCF service web.config settings and required client settings into Umbraco web.config.
6. Thats it.
7. Create a macro for the user control and use it on a page to test it. Works great.

Here one point interesting to note is that Umbraco is acting as WCF service as well as Client i.e., self hosting service.

Objective:-

Object is to migrate the service as a stand alone one to a server and consume it in User control, which is used in Umbraco macro. Above works with no exception. so this must work as expected.

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