.Net Consuming Web Service: Identical types in two different services

Question

I have to consume 2 different web services. Both contain a definition for a 'user' object.

When I reference the services using "Add service reference" I give each service a unique namespace:

com.xyz.appname.ui.usbo.UserManagement    
com.xyz.appname.ui.usbo.AgencyManagement

The problem I have is that each one of the proxies that are generated contain a new user class. One is located at com.xyz.appname.ui.usbo.UserManagement.user and the other at com.xyz.appname.ui.usbo.AgencyManagement.user. However, the user objects are identical and I would like to treat them as such.

Is there a way that I can somehow reference the user object as one object instead of treating them as two different?

I am using .Net 3.5 to consume the service. The service being consumed is written in Java.

Thanks!!

Edit:

This forum thread got very close to an answer, but the accepted answer ended up being to share types from client and server - which I cannot do because we're crossing platforms (Java to .Net). The real question is, is there a /sharetypes type of parameter for svcutil in WCF?

Answer 1

What ended up working for me was to provide the svcutil.exe all WSDL addresses that I needed to generate code from. SVCUTIL will look at all the types from each service and determine automatically which ones are common and should be re-used.

The type that you want to be shared should also have a shared namespace, and that namespace should be called out on each of the webservices that want to share that type.

Answer 2

the WSDL tool has a parameter.

/sharetypes
    Turns on type sharing feature. This feature creates one code file with
    a single type definition for identical types shared between different
    services (namespace, name and wire signature must be identical).
    Reference the services with http:// URLs as command-line parameters
    or create a discomap document for local files.

Answer 3

If you're working with local files you can do the following:

wsdl.exe /sharetypes file://c:\path\to\file.wsdl file://c:\path\to\otherFile.wsdl /namespace:<your namespace> /output:(any switches etc...)

The sharetypes switch requires that you provide URLs to the services, and doesn't work if you simply point wsdl at the files.