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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition
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Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform, Fifth Edition

by Andrew Troelsen
May 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1752 pages
41h 17m
English
Apress
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25.10. Building the WCF Client Application

Now that your host is in place, the final task is to build a piece of software to communicate with this WCF service type. While you could take the long road and build the necessary infrastructure by hand (a feasible, but labor-intensive task), the .NET Framework 4.0 SDK provides several approaches to generate a client-side proxy quickly. Begin by creating a new Console Application named MagicEightBallServiceClient.

25.10.1. Generating Proxy Code Using svcutil.exe

The first way you can build a client-side proxy is to use the svcutil.exe command-line tool. Using svcutil.exe, you can generate a new C# language file that represents the proxy code itself, as well as a client-side configuration file. You ...

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