Calling a WCF Service without a Service reference - wcf

Question

I have a project A which has a Service reference to a WCF Service. I want to invoke the service in project B without a Service reference.
From what I understand, the Service reference is just a way to generate the proxy and config and is not used at run-time.
I copied the proxy class and the node from project A to project B.
Can I just create an instance of the proxy class in project B and expect it to directly use the config. items and connect to the service without anything else?
(I cannot try this right now)

Answer 1

Short answer yes.
As long as you have the interface, a way to connect to the service, you can create a channel and talk to service without having the reference.
The reference simply makes it easier for you to develop against.

Answer 2

Look into creating channels from your service contracts with ChannelFactory.

Answer 3

Here is a working copy. For me it works fine and returns List
private List<MyClass> GetAllSiteDetailsJSON(string language)
{
Uri address =
new Uri(#"http://weburlpath/MyService/MyService.svc/GetAllList/"
+ language);
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "GET";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string jSon = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
JavaScriptSerializer jsSerializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
List<MyClass> result = jsSerializer.Deserialize<List<MyClass>>(jSon);
return result;
}
}
And Here is the class
public class MyClass
{
public string ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public List<Location> Locations { get; set; }
}
public class Location
{
public string Region { get; set; }
public string Country { get; set; }
}