WCF: how to generate a single WSDL document, without WSDL:import?

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D_Guidi picture D_Guidi · Jun 12, 2009 · Viewed 59.4k times · Source

I'm troubling into an issue... I'm trying to find a way to generate a single wsdl document from my WCF service, i.e. without any link to external documents. I've used FlatWsdl to remove all xsd:import links, bou my generated wsdl still contains a link to an external wsdl document via a wsdl:import declaration:

<wsdl:import namespace="http://myurl/mynamespace"  
             location="http://myserver/myservice.svc?wsdl=wsdl0"/>

This document actually contains all inlined xsd schemas, so... there's a way to inline also this external wsdl document, in order to have a single wsdl?

Thanks a lot for any kind of help.

Answer

Irwin picture Irwin · Dec 28, 2011

You can now do this natively in .net 4.5 (beta). There is an option (?singleWsdl instead of ?wsdl) for telling the service to output everything in a single wsdl document. More info on the new stuff here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd456789(v=vs.110).aspx

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