Hi Greg, As an alternative to 'Add Service Reference' and even 'slsvcutil/svcutil' you could use AutoServiceProxy, just by sharing DataContracts and ServiceContracts you don't really need the proxy. Have a look at the project in bitbucket.
https://bitbucket.org/mamadero/sltoolsdemo Miguel A. Madero Reyes www.miguelmadero.com (blog) m...@miguelmadero.com On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > Folks,**** > > ** ** > > Thanks to a hint by Brendan in the Silverlight forum I was led to find > this utility (on my machine):**** > > ** ** > > "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft > SDKs\Silverlight\v4.0\Tools\slsvcutil<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197958(v=vs.95).aspx> > .exe"**** > > ** ** > > Thank heavens for this, as it means I can now generate the service > reference code for a Silverlight project the same way I have been using > svcutil for normal projects. I haven’t used the “Add Service Reference” in > normal projects for years because the code generated by svcutil is easier > to control and far less cluttered. I highly recommend that people gen the > code this way instead of using “add reference”.**** > > ** ** > > I was wondering what the equivalent was for SL projects and what the build > process what doing internally. Ages ago I used some monitoring tools and > various tricks to find what was happening internally but was defeated and > gave up. I’m not sure if slsvcutil existed then, but it does now. I also > fell for the bug described > here<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlightws/archive/2010/04/30/workaround-for-stackoverflowexception-when-using-slsvcutil-exe.aspx>and > had to use the workaround to get slsvcutil working. > **** > > ** ** > > I hope this tool helps others avoid the shocking problems I had this > morning with a “corrupt” service reference.**** > > ** ** > > Greg**** > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > ozsilverlight@ozsilverlight.com > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > >
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