What url is needed to consume WCF service - wcf

Question

I have created a WCF service in Visual Studio 2010 and published it to a server running IIS 7.5.
It has one method - called returnNumber. This takes an int parameter called numberIn, multiplies it by 2 and returns the answer.
If I put
http://myserver/TestService/Service1.svc?wsdl
in a browser, it displays a page of XHTML.
What url should I use so that I can call my WCF service from a browser - passing a number in the QueryString so that the returnNumber method is called?
Further to responses below - Daniel - here is my code:
The web config:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint above before deployment -->
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true. Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
An IServicer1.cs file containing an interface:
namespace NumberTest
{
[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
[OperationContract(IsOneWay = false)]
int returnNumber(int numberIn);
}
}
And Service1.svc.cs
namespace NumberTest
{
public class NumberService : IService1
{
public int returnNumber(int numberIn)
{
int returnValue = numberIn * 2;
return returnValue;
}
}
I have published the above to
http://myServer/TestService
and, if I add a reference to the WCF service from within a VS Web Application, the returnNumber method is exposed and works if I call it.
How do I allow people running web sites that are not asp.net (so they cannot add a service reference) to be able to call my returnNumber method and get a number back?

Answer 1

To pass arguments to a service on the querystring you are unfortunately not using the correct technology stack.
WCF exposes web operations across a SOAP 1.2 (by default) endpoint, which means that the web server expects a SOAP request (that is a soap envelope wrapping the XML request payload) directed to the services URL.
What you want to do is hook up a pure HTTP web service, for which the correct Microsoft technology stack is ASP.NET WebApi.

Answer 2

You can use the WCF Test Client (depending on the version of VS you are using), pop in the address for your WSDL, and use that to test your web serivce.
If you use the test client and a tool such as Fiddler, you could find out the URLs that are being used under the covers by looking for HTTP POSTs to your web service.

Answer 3

Regarding your second question, consuming your web service from a non-asp.net platform, you should only need to configure your service to provide the WSDL.
Non-.net platforms, aka Java, have tools, such as wsdl2java, that consume the WSDL and produce the necessary client code.
The tools and usage will vary depending on platform, but the following link should provide a valuable point of reference. http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/userguide-creatingclients.html
Regards,