ServiceStack - generate ASP.NET webservice -reference issue

Question

I am using the very excellent servicestack libaries and trying to generate a ASP.NET web-service reference (old style not WCF) from within VS2010 across my servicestack WSDL - Soap11. To nicely wrap the service WSDL.

The DTO's are in a seperate assembly/namespace (My.WS.DTO) from the AppHost/services and are following the request/response naming convention.. when I try to generate the reference through visual studio I get the following error in VS.

Custom tool error: Unable to import WebService/Schema. Unable to import binding 'BasicHttpBinding_ISyncReply' from namespace 'http://schemas.servicestack.net/types'. Unable to import operation 'GetMyDetails'. The element 'http://schemas.servicestack.net/types:GetMyDetails' is missing.

NOTE: GetMyDetails is just the first service that appears in the list - so I dont believe this is the problem.

I have tried adding the assembly namespace in the AppHost file using EndpointHostConfig.Instance.WsdlServiceNamespace = "My.WS.DTO"; and this just causes the same generation error (as above) but with 'My.WS.DTO' instead of 'http://schemas.servicestack.net/types'.

I assume it is perhaps some sort of referencing problem but any guidance as to what I might be doing wrong would be great. cheers

Answer 1

I don't know if this is still an issue for you but I had a similar problem and found that I had not decorated one of my DTOs with [DataContract] and [DataMember] attributes, as described on the SOAP Support wiki page. Once you have added these to your DTO it will be declared in the type section of the WSDL.