Configuration Validation in WCF 4.5

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

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:

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