Question

This line appears in my Silverlight application cs.project file.

<ItemGroup>
<WCFMetadata Include="Service References\" />
</ItemGroup>

Just wondering if anyone know anything about how it works and why it is there.

Thank you.

Answer 1

When you right click on the Service References node in the Solution Explorer and Pick the Add Service Reference.. you can add a Service reference to your silverlight project. You will see some additional node in your csproject and under teh Service References folder you will see bunch of auto-generated files that help you connect easily to the service and invoke methods

Then your project will look something like this

  <ItemGroup>
    <WCFMetadata Include="Service References\" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <WCFMetadataStorage Include="Service References\ServiceReference1\" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="Service References\ServiceReference1\Foo-Web-Services-Bar.disco" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="Service References\ServiceReference1\configuration91.svcinfo" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="Service References\ServiceReference1\configuration.svcinfo" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="Service References\ServiceReference1\Reference.svcmap">
      <Generator>WCF Proxy Generator</Generator>
      <LastGenOutput>Reference.cs</LastGenOutput>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>

Yours is empty because you haven’t added any service references