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Asked: 2026-06-13T15:07:51+00:00

I am attempting to create a few WCF web services from existing WSDLs. There

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I am attempting to create a few WCF web services from existing WSDLs. There are a few awesome questions on SO for this, (1, 2, definitely more) but many of these are from 3 years ago, and I end up wondering if the advice is still valid. If it is, how do I finish integrating it into a WCF project in Visual Studio 2010? The questions and linked blog posts are considerably mum about how one configures a .svc to use the converted WSDL after it’s been run through svchost.exe (see linked question 1 for details on that), and a blog post linked in the thread suggests there is a way to make Visual Studio create a .svc around a converted WSDL, but I cannot find this anywhere in either the program’s interface or the documentation.

So, the question, I suppose, would be: What is the generally recommended way to approach contract-first web service design in Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0?

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    It hasn’t changed. You can still generate a service interface and its data contracts using svcutil and a WSDL. Even a client will be generated, though you won’t need that.

    You can then create a .svc-file, which merely instructs a ServiceHost which class to host, as explained here:

    <% @ServiceHost Service="MyNamespace.MyServiceImplementationTypeName" %>

    Your implementation of course has to implement the generated service interface.

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