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Avner Kashtan's Frustrations and Exultations

Creating metadata from WCF executables

So I've started messing around with WinFX and WCF.
It certainly feels like it needs more work, especially on the dev-tool end of things.

I was trying to run SvcUtil to generate metadata and proxy from a console application and ran into this error message:
 
Error: There was an error exporting the ContractDescription loaded from the type
: Strawjackal.WCFTest.IService, MyService, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
    Duplicate contract QNames are not supported.
Another ContractDescription with the Name: IService and Namespace:
Strawjackal.WCFTest has already been exported.

This was very confusing until I found this page here explaining that SvcUtil is simply broken when running on EXE assemblies. The original poster's solution was to recompile his assembly as a class, but I've discovered that an even simpler solution is to just rename my EXE to a DLL, run SvcUtil against it, and rename it back.

WSDL created.
Me happy.
Posted: Apr 09 2006, 06:33 PM by AvnerK | with no comments
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