Is it possible to make the auto-generated WSDL for a .NET web service include descriptions for certain data types if no web method returns that data type of takes that data type as a parameter?
I could just include a dummy webmethod that never gets called, but I'm looking for a less hacky way. Thanks!
Mike
Arguably, they have no place in the wsdl if they aren't used... you can use [XmlInclude] to specify known subtypes, but I don't think that is what you mean. You could of course use a custom WSDL fragment, but I suspect the simplest option is, as you have hinted, to include a dummy method that involves them. To avoid having to add lots of dummy methods you could include the custom types as properties on a DummyEntity object returned from your DummyMethod - but it smells a bit ripe ;-p
What do you want these types for?