Introduction

Today, in this article let's play around with one of the interesting and most useful concepts in WCF 4.5.

Question: What is configuration validation?

In simple terms "It provides warning messages to the user when an input string is not in the correct format in a XML file".

Step 1: The complete code of web.config looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<configuration>

<system.serviceModel>

<bindings>

<basicHttpBinding>

<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"/>

</basicHttpBinding>

</bindings>

<client>

<endpoint address="http://localhost:4164/Service1.svc" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="WCFApp.IService1" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"/>

</client>

</system.serviceModel>

<system.web>

<compilation debug="true"/>

</system.web>

</configuration>


Step 2: The output of configuration validation error looks like this:

Configuration-Validation-in-WCF-4.5.jpg

I hope this article is useful for you.