I have quite simple WCF service and its client - both reside in my application. At the moment interface used for WCF contract consist of 3 methods, and according to MSDN I generated client code for it using svcutil.exe CLI. But now I added one more method. And I wonder - is there a simpler way to regenerate client code (probably directly in VisualStudio) using doing less actions for this operation?
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Right click on your Services References and select the service you'd like to regenerate code for. Then click Update Service Reference. Then you're done.
Update after re-reading the question I realized its possible you don't know how to import WCF Services. Here is how its done:
Update as per comments:
There are two workarounds for this, The first is to run the application outside of your IDE and then go into your IDE to import it.
The second one is to create a proxy client that implements your service contract. When you are using the client proxy you can right click on the interface and select an option to implement the interface. Assuming that the set up is done correctly, if you make a change to the ServiceContract you can then go to your proxy class and just click implement interface which will update your proxy class. by doing this you bypass the svc utility completely; however, you have significantly more control over your development. You need to work with DLLs to accomplish this; however, it works like a charm. Here is an example though I doubt you need one I'll just leave it for the sake of completeness. Use this example for duplexes
