How to use a WSDL file to create a WCF service (not make a call)

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Using svcutil, you can create interfaces and classes (data contracts) from the WSDL.

svcutil your.wsdl (or svcutil your.wsdl /l:vb if you want Visual Basic)

This will create a file called “your.cs” in C# (or “your.vb” in VB.NET) which contains all the necessary items.

Now, you need to create a class “MyService” which will implement the service interface (IServiceInterface) – or the several service interfaces – and this is your server instance.

Now a class by itself doesn’t really help yet – you’ll need to host the service somewhere. You need to either create your own ServiceHost instance which hosts the service, configure endpoints and so forth – or you can host your service inside IIS.

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