Adding Service Reference in Visual Studio 2010 problem

Question

I'm trying to use Visual Studio 2010 to Add Service Reference to a service that I do not own. It does not add anything to the app.config, and the Reference.cs file that gets created only contains two classes, viz SerializableExpression and an empty InterLinqType class. But I don't have a usable client that I can instantiate. When I turn off the option to Reuse Types in generated assemblies then it generates a bit more members in the above-mentioned classes, but still I have no usable client class that I can instantiate as my proxy to the service! Using Visual Studio 2008 to add a Service Reference to the same service all works perfectly! Please help.

Answer 1

I've had this issue in the past working with a 3rd party service.

3 things to try.

1. Download the WSDL locally and try to add it from there.

2. Create the proxy from the command line and then add it to your project. Here is more info on the command line util: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa347733.aspx Play around with the flags that are available. Keep an eye on the /targetClientVersion flag. Here is a sample usage:

   svcutil /t:code /language=VB http://servicedomain/serviceurl /out:MyServiceProxy.vb /config:MyServiceProxy.config

3. Validate the WSDL you are looking at is actually valid. I've had invalidate characters, unclosed tags, and invalid locations of extra dtd files throw off the creation of proxies. You can try and use the validator here to see if it fails here: http://xmethods.net/ve2/Tools.po