Svcutil.exe – Generate the proxy class for the WCF client application

Svcutil.exe – Generate the proxy class for the WCF client application<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 

 

Svcutil.exe can export metadata for services, contracts, and data types in compiled assemblies. The following commands show you how to export metadata and generate the proxy class from a compiled assembly.

 

1. Run Svcutil.exe on the compiled assembly to export metadata.

Svcutil.exe DemoService.dll

 

This command should generate the following files:

adventure-works.com.2007.06.24.wsdl

adventure-works.com.2007.06.24.xsd

schemas.microsoft.com.2003.10.Serialization.Arrays.xsd

schemas.microsoft.com.2003.10.Serialization.xsd

 

2. Use the WSDL file and XML schemas to generate the proxy class.

Svcutil /namespace:*, DemoClient.DemoService adventure-works.com.2007.06.24.wsdl *.xsd /out:DemoProxy.cs

 

This command runs the svcutil utility again, but this time it uses the information in the WSDL file and all the schema files (*.xsd) to generate a C# source file containing a class that can act as a proxy object for the service. The namespace parameter specifies the C# namespace generated for the class. The svcutil utility creates two files:

DemoProxy.cs --- source code for the proxy class.

Output.config --- an example application configuration file for the client application. By default, the configuration file generates an endpoint definition with the basicHttpBinding binding.