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

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

 

 

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.