Performing WS-Discovery from within WinRT

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I'd like to use WS-Discovery from within a WinRT application I'm developing, but this doesn't appear to be available. Whilst it's available within the .Net Frameworks's WCF 4.0, they appear to have ommitted it from WinRT.

Since it's WinRT, I cannot reference System.ServiceModel.Discovery.

Can anyone recommend an alternative? I could probably implement a basic version of this standard myself, but would like to avoid the work if I can. It might make a nice OSS project.

There is a bunch of Win32 calls related to Web Services that are still supported (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205759.aspx). I am not sure of discovery specifically. — sarvesh, Mar 12 '12 at 15:12
I don't think it is in there. Is there something in JQuery you can use? Maybe switch to a JavaScript project and try that? — Bill Sempf, Mar 13 '12 at 02:19
I don't think the Win32 calls nor jQuery include anything related to WS-Discovery. Are there any other technologies that can be used for dynamic service discovery? — Tomas McGuinness, Mar 13 '12 at 09:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '12 at 13:55

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WS-Discovery isn't supported by the WinRT API.

The API does support UDP Multicasting, so I can use that to perform peer discovery.

answered Apr 23 '12 at 13:55

Tomas McGuinness

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Did you find the way for WS-Discovery using WInRT. PLz help me on that – Vikram Ranabhatt Dec 07 '12 at 08:51
No, sorry, that portion of the protocol just isn't available in WinRT at this time. Not to my knowledge anyway. – Tomas McGuinness Dec 07 '12 at 09:57
Tell you the API? I don't understand. – Tomas McGuinness Dec 07 '12 at 15:22
Sorry its typo ...Tell me the WinRT api or code snippets which does UDP Multicasting – Vikram Ranabhatt Dec 07 '12 at 15:29

Performing WS-Discovery from within WinRT

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