BindingFactory - Helpers for adding WsHttpBinding/WsHttpsBinding to dotnet core projects.

BindingFactory.cs

public static class BindingFactory
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// A poor man's implementation for dotnet-core support of WsHttpBinding (plain, http).
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="endpointAddress">Full http endpoint address.</param>
        public static System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding CreateWsHttpBinding(string endpointAddress)
        {
            var result = new System.ServiceModel.Channels.CustomBinding();
            var textBindingElement = new System.ServiceModel.Channels.TextMessageEncodingBindingElement();
            result.Elements.Add(textBindingElement);

            var httpBindingElement = new System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpTransportBindingElement
            {
                AllowCookies = true,
                MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue,
                MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue
            };

            result.Elements.Add(httpBindingElement);
            return result;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// A poor man's implementation for dotnet-core support of WsHttpsBinding (secured, https).
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="endpointAddress">Full https endpoint address.</param>
        public static System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding CreateWsHttpsBinding(string endpointAddress)
        {
            var result = new System.ServiceModel.Channels.CustomBinding();
            var textBindingElement = new System.ServiceModel.Channels.TextMessageEncodingBindingElement();
            result.Elements.Add(textBindingElement);

            var httpsBindingElement = new System.ServiceModel.Channels.HttpsTransportBindingElement
            {
                AllowCookies = true,
                MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue,
                MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue
            };

            result.Elements.Add(httpsBindingElement);
            return result;
        }
    }

Actually inspired by the following two dotnet WCF issues:

• WCF #31 "Support WS* Bindings to allow interop with federated WCF services"
• WCF #1359 "WsHttpBinding Configuration project.json"