How to consume a WCF service (WCF Client)

In this article I will show you how to consume (call) a WCF service. For  this example I will be consuming a service that was created in the  article http://dotnetanalysis.blogspot.com/2011/08/introduction-to-wcf-windows.html. Even if you haven't gone through this article, don't worry about it. You can consume any service in the same way as shown below.
Consuming a service involves basic steps

• Adding a service reference
• Creating an instance of the client
• Calling the web methods of the instance

Follow the example below for details

1>Create a console application as shown below, call it ConsumeService

2>Add a Service Reference to http://localhost:8000/DilbertService (note that this service should be running)

3>Double click on ServicReference1 on the right 

4>Locate the name of the client. You will use this name "DilbertFunctionsClient" in the next step.

5>Copy this into the program.cs code page

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using ConsumeService.ServiceReference1;

namespace ConsumeService

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            DilbertFunctionsClient client = new DilbertFunctionsClient();

            Console.WriteLine(client.Add(1,2));

            client.Close();

            Console.ReadLine();

        }

    }

}

6>At this stage this is how your application would look like

7>Run the app to see the output of client.Add(1,2)