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Here’s a common dilemma .NET developers encounter when working with XML: I have some XML that I want to represent in a strongly typed way, but I don’t have any XSDs to represent that XML. How do I turn that XML into CLR types that I can serialize? Of course, I could go about manually...

In a previous post, I outlined how you could import and export the XML schema for a type that you’re serializing with DataContractSerializer. Here’s how to do the same thing if you’re serializing objects with XmlSerializer: static void RoundTripXmlMetadata( Type type) { XmlSchemas schemas...

If you try exporting the following type into an XML schema: public class Employee { public DateTime BirthDate { get ; set ; } } And you happen to be using XmlSerializer, you may be surprised to find that the schema gets exposed like this: <xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified...

Everyone’s entitled to their own personal favorite svcutil switch, but mine is the “/reference” switch, or “/r” for short. It allows you to avoid generating a type again if it’s already present in a referenced assembly. Here’s how it works: Let’s say you have an assembly Foo.dll that already contains...

One of the more common questions I get is along these lines: I want to configure svcutil to use a particular binding. How do I do that? Usually, this happens for one of two reasons: 1) You’ve exposed your metadata with a secure binding, and need a way to generate proxy from it. 2...

For many WCF developers, service metadata import and export is a magical thing. You start your service with a serviceMetadataBehavior, set httpGetEnabled to true or add an IMetadataExchange endpoint, and metadata gets automatically generated for you. Then you run svcutil or use Add Service Reference...