Visual Studio 2010 add service reference Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel

Question

I want to add a service reference to my visual studio project. When doing this I get the following error:

There was an error downloading 'xxxxxxxx/yyyyyy?wsdl'. The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'xxxxxxxx/yyyyyy?wsdl'. Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS with authority 'xxxxxxxx'. The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. If the service is defined in the current solution, try building the solution and adding the service reference again.

The remote service(not mine)requires a client certificate, which I own and have installed on my local machine under the LOCAL_COMPUTER and CURRENT_USER the certificate was installed correctly, I can access the service in browser.

Is there a way of telling Visual Studio to take a client certificate somehow? Or maybe to I need to contact the other end to change some config stuff on their side?

thanks

Answer 1

The problem was that the wsdl file included another wsdl file. Visual Studio couldn't handle that. I tried getting the include reference in a browser and saved it locally. Then I changed the reference in the first wsdl to the local wsdl that I downloaded in browser.

So, best thing to do is:

• save wsdl locally

• check includes in the wsdl, save these locally also, and reference the local versions.

Answer 2

You could request the WSDL manually and then create the proxy using svcutil. This should end up with the same result.