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Chapter 13, Enhancing Visual Studio

#99 Generate Web Services Code

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You can also call any Visual Studio commands from this window by simply

prefacing the command with an exclamation point. Figure 13-20 shows how

using an exclamation point shows the command window IntelliSense.

For instance, you could enter the following command into the VSCMDShell

window:

>!File.OpenFile Class1.cs

This would call the OpenFile command and open Class1.cs in the develop-

ment environment. For a list of helpful command window commands,

please refer to “Master the Command Window”

[Hack #46].

HACK

#99

Generate Web Services Code Hack #99

If you’re a fan of contract-driven development, you can take control of the

WSDL chicken-egg situation.

The .NET Framework makes it extremely easy to create and deploy Web

Services; on top of that, Visual Studio makes it even easier still. You can add

an .asmx file to your project, add a couple of methods, then build your solu-

tion, and you have just written a Web Service. This process is deceptively

simple though, since a lot of things are going on in the background, includ-

ing the generation of a WSDL on the server side and a client proxy on the

client side. Visual Studio quietly handles all of this for you, which is not

Figure 13-19. VSCMDShell Window

Figure 13-20. Command window IntelliSense