I am using DataSvcUtil and I wanted to generate a custom namespace for my generated class but this does not seem to be allowed. Is there a reason for this?
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I am using DataSvcUtil and I wanted to generate a custom namespace for my generated class but this does not seem to be allowed. Is there a reason for this?
DataSvcUtil.exe is a fairly thin wrapper over the System.Data.Services.Design.EntityClassGenerator class, which has support for using a custom namespace prefix, but not arbitrarily customizing the namespaces. I don’t know of a specific reason this support was not provided, there may not have been a compelling enough scenario for it at the time.
If you need more flexible code generation, I strongly suggest you take a look at the T4 template the team released some time ago. It is very likely that code generation for WCF Data Services will more towards using T4 rather than DataSvcUtil/EntityClassGenerator.