WCF Web Service Reference connected services provider is now part of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2017. Instructions can be found in the usage guide document. Please let us know if you run into any issues or have any feedback.
- Updated to use dotnet-svcutil 2.0.1
- Bug fixes (Feedback #612135, #3264).
- Added option to generate synchronous operations on the Client Options page (#654).
- Bug fixes (Feedback #499745)
- Updated to use dotnet-svcutil 2.0.0
- Updated to use dotnet-svcutil 1.0.1
- Bug fixes (#2852)
- Bug fixes (#2635)
- Bug fixes (#2719)
- UI improvements and bug fixes (#2104)
- Building the user’s project is no longer required as part of the client code generation process (#2384).
- Bug fixes (#2461, #2197, #2410)
- Added support of updating an existing service reference. This simplifies the process for regenerating the WCF client proxy code for an updated web service (read preview 1 blog post for more details).
- Added support for generating code even if the provided service metadata does not contain any endpoints (#2238).
- UI improvements and bug fixes (#2401)
- All features and bug fixes included in v15.5 preview releases are now in the v15.5 final release.
- Preview releases of this tool (if installed) can be uninstalled through Tools -> Extensions and Updates menu in VS (#2429)
- User interface improvements, for example, added UI to display operations of selected service to help selecting the right service when multiple similar services are available.
- Fixed an issue with error message "It was not possible to find any compatible framework version..." which can happen when .NET Core 1.0 SDK is not installed (#2340).
- Fixed an issue with error message “the service at following uri does not have a valid endpoint” which can happen when a wsdl file imports other wsdl/schema documents (#2254).
- Other bug fixes.
- WCF Web Service Reference connected services provider is included in VS 2017 starting with this release.
- This tool is now available for all the languages that VS 2017 supports.
- Added support for .NET Core projects that target latest .NET Framework and future releases with TargetFramework moniker (TFM) like net47, net471 etc.
- Bug fixes (#2172, #2234, and more)
- This tool was previously available in preview mode from the Visual Studio Market Place.