Can you combine the WSDL and XSD data from a WCF service?

Question

Is it possible to create a single file to generate a client from a WCF generated WSDL file (and any additional XSD files that are also generated from this service)

I can generate a valid client using svcutil.exe passing both the wsdl file and each xsd file, but I have a customer who is using a PHP tool to generate this and I wanted to see if I could make it easy for them by having only one file instead of many.

Answer 1

Yes, you can - with some clever WCF extensions. Check out these ready-made solutions:

• Flatten your WSDL with this Custom ServiceHost for WCF
• Improving WCF Interoperability: Flattening your WSDL
• Flatten WCF WSDL on demand
• Inline XSD in WSDL for WCF

Hope that helps!

Marc