Svcutil.exe MSBuild Task

Question

Is there a task in MSBuild to execute svcutil.exe? Or is there a definitive wrapper task somewhere?

Answer 1

You can always use the Exec task and run what ever you want.

Answer 2

I'm not aware of an MSBuild task for svcutil.exe.

Such a task may exist in MSBuild Community Tasks or the MSBuild Extension Pack though.

Answer 3

After searching extensively, there does not appear to be a task either included or available to do this.

Answer 4

Look at this blog post Automate XSD code generation in Visual Studio