Question

I have created a RIA services class library project and things are not going as I expected. The problem is that when I add domain service classes to the server project, the corresponding domain context classes are not generated on the client project.

I start by creating a new project of type WCF RIA services class library. The generated solution has two projects: RIAServicesLibrary1 (the Silverlight class library project) and RIAServicesLibrary1.Web (the class library that will hold the services).

Then I add a new project item to RIAServicesLibrary1.Web of type DomainServiceClass. I add a sample method so that the resulting class code is:

namespace RIAServicesLibrary1.Web
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Hosting;
    using System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Server;


    // TODO: Create methods containing your application logic.
    [EnableClientAccess()]
    public class DomainService1 : DomainService
    {
        [Invoke]
        void DoSomething()
        {
        }
    }
}

Then I generate the whole solution and… nothing happens on the client project. The Generated_Code folder is empty, and the domain context object for the service is not here.

Funny enough, if I add a new item of type Authentication domain service, it works as expected: the file RIAServicesLibrary1.Web.g.cs is created on the client project, containing the AuthenticationDomainService1 class as expected.

So what’s happening here? Am I doing something wrong?

Note: I am using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM and WCF RIA services 1.0.

Answer 1

Change it to:

[Invoke]
public void DoSomething()
{
}

Not having ‘public’ means there was nothing to generate.