Visual Studio 2019

If you need to invoke a WCF-Soap compliant Webservice from an ASP.Net application, the endpoints for it are stored in the Web.Config:

<client>
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
        <binding name="BasicHttpsBinding_IService1">
          <security mode="Transport" />
        </binding>
        <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService11" />
        <binding name="BasicHttpsBinding_IService11">
          <security mode="Transport" />
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>

  <endpoint address="http://sdeservice.azurewebsites.net/Service1.svc"
            binding="basicHttpBinding"
            bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"
            contract="ServiceReference1.IService1" 
            name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />

  <endpoint address="https://sdeservice.azurewebsites.net/Service1.svc"
            binding="basicHttpBinding"
            bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpsBinding_IService11"
            contract="ServiceReference2.IService1" 
            name="BasicHttpsBinding_IService1" />
/client>

If you need to invoke the same Webservice from an ASP.Net Core application, there is no Web.Config and you need to store the endpoints in an applicationSettings.json file. The following applicationSettings.json file introduces a section 'Service1' with some properties defining the Webservice to use:

{
  "Logging": {
    "LogLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Microsoft": "Warning",
      "Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime": "Information"
    }
  },
  "Service1": {
    "Title": "Service1",
    "Name": "Very Cool Webservice",
    "Endpoint": "http://sdeservice.azurewebsites.net/Service1.svc",
    "SecureEndpoint": "https://sdeservice.azurewebsites.net/Service1.svc"
  },
  "AllowedHosts": "*"
}

There are a couple of ways to get this configuration in .Net Core 3.1 :

1. Bind configuration in controller
2. Bind configuration in Startup
3. Dynamically read configuration

Bind configuration in controller

Any .Net Core application allows you to bind a configuration to a simple POCO-class, the following code binds an instance of class 'Service1Config' to properties 'Title', 'Name', 'Endpoint' and 'SecureEndpoint' from the 'Service1'-section. Your controller needs to have a constructor with an 'IConfiguration'-argument, ASP.Net Core will invoke it and you can use it to bind to a class. Then the endpoint as stored in the 'Endpoint'-attribute can be used at the endpoint of a Webservice-client as shown in the ‘Invoke’-method or ‘InvokeSecure’ to use https:

public class HomeController : Controller
{
  private Service1Config ConfigClass { get; set; }

  public HomeController( IConfiguration configuration)
  {
    this.ConfigClass = new Service1Config( );
    IConfigurationSection section = configuration.GetSection( "Service1");
    section.Bind( this.ConfigClass);
  }

  public IActionResult Invoke()
  {
    ServiceReference1.Service1Client client = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client( Service1Client.EndpointConfiguration.BasicHttpBinding_IService1);
    string endpoint = this.ConfigClass.Endpoint;
    client.Endpoint.Address = new EndpointAddress( endpoint);
    string result = this.Client.GetData( 3);
    return( View( ));
  }

  public IActionResult InvokeSecure()
  {
    ServiceReference1.Service1Client secureClient = new ServiceReference1.Service1Client( Service1Client.EndpointConfiguration.BasicHttpsBinding_IService1);
    string secureEndpoint = this.ConfigClass.SecureEndpoint;
    secureClient.Endpoint.Address = new EndpointAddress( secureEndpoint);
    string result = this.Client.GetData( 3);
    return( View( ));
  }
}

public class Service1Config
{
  public string Title		  { get; set; }
  public string Name		  { get; set; }
  public string Endpoint	  { get; set; }
  public string SecureEndpoint{ get; set; }
}

Bind configuration in Startup

When you need to have access to the configuration globally, you can do the same in your programs 'Startup.cs':

public class Startup
{
  internal Service1Config ConfigClass{ get; set; }

  public Startup( IConfiguration configuration)
  {
    this.ConfigClass= new Service1Config( );
    IConfigurationSection section = configuration.GetSection( "Service1");
    section.Bind( this.ConfigClass);
  }
}

Dynamically read configuration

If you need to dynamically read the same configuration, you can do so like this :

public class HomeController : Controller
{
  public IActionResult Index()
  {		
    string title = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddJsonFile("appsettings.json").Build().GetSection("Service1")[ "Title"];
    string title = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddJsonFile("appsettings.json").Build().GetSection("Service1")[ "Title"];
    string endpoint = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddJsonFile("appsettings.json").Build().GetSection("Service1")[ "Endpoint"];
    string secureEndpoint = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddJsonFile("appsettings.json").Build().GetSection("Service1")[ "SecureEndpoint"];
    return( View( ));
  }
}

Notes

• If you add a reference to a Webservice, Visual Studio 2019 will add a 'connectedServices.json' file which also appears when you publish suggesting it stores a reference to the endpoint url used by a webservice-client. This is not the case, and the file can be safely removed from the publish.
• If you generate a proxy for http, the generated proxy will contain a constructor without arguments
• If you generate a proxy for http and https (examples are using that), the generated proxy will contain a constructor with an argument indicating the protocol to use, either http or https (BasicHttpBinding_IService1/BasicHttpsBinding_IService1)