Configurable EndPoint for WCF Connecting to Authorize.NET’s ARB

Configuring a WCF service in a class library has been something that has been a struggle for me in the past. There was always something that I knew should be done differently, as it just didn’t “feel” right to have to recompile the class library when we move from a test environment to a production environment.

This specific example uses WCF to connect to Authorize.NET’s ARB service for creating subscriptions.

Here is what I came up with:

// Be sure to configure this in the database for the various environments, as needed
EndpointAddress ea = new EndpointAddress(YourDataAccess.GetUrl);

// HTTPS
BasicHttpBinding serviceBinding = new BasicHttpBinding(BasicHttpSecurityMode.Transport);
serviceBinding.ReceiveTimeout = new TimeSpan(0,0,0,20);
ARB.ServiceSoapClient service = new ARB.ServiceSoapClient(serviceBinding, ea);
ARB.ARBCreateSubscriptionResponseType response;

// Set the credentials
authentication = new ARB.MerchantAuthenticationType();
authentication.name = this.AuthNetName();
authentication.transactionKey = this.AuthNetTxn();
response = service.ARBCreateSubscription(authentication, sub);