WCF Simplified configuration 4.5 new feature? - wcf

Question

I was going through new WCF 4.5 features http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd456789.aspx and was trying out Simplified Generated Configuration Files. When i generate the config files in 4.0 and 4.5 both of them are same. They do not have default values.
Am i missing something here ?

Answer 1

Although I can't find anything specifically on 4.0 vs 4.5, the link you referenced shows a config file first for 3.0 and then one for 4.5.
Beginning with 4.0, simplified config files were introduced that had the concepts of default bindings and default endpoints - meaning that you could create an out-of-the-box WCF service application in 4.0 or 4.5 and there would be no binding or endpoint defined - you can verify this by looking at the web.config files for your 4.0 and 4.5 service.
When you add a service reference, you most likely used an "http://" URI - by default, "http" maps to basicHttpBinding. So let's look at the snippet you posted in the comments:
<endpoint address="localhost:36275/Service1.svc"
binding="basicHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"
contract="ServiceReference1.IService1"
name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
Everything the client needs to communicate with the service is there - the address, the binding to use, the binding configuration to use and the contract.
If you look in the client config file, you should see the following as well:
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
Which corresponds to the binding specified by the endpoint's bindingConfiguration attribute. Since the defaults are being used, the other properties for the binding are not specified.
In 3.0 and 3.5, the binding section would have had all the properties of the binding specified with default values - in 4.0 and later it does not.
You're not missing anything - other than the documentation being a little misleading in that it implies this is a 4.5 feature, when it reality it's a 4.0 and 4.5 feature.