Generate a WSDL without a webserver

Question

I would like to generate a WSDL file from a c++ atl webservice without using a web server. I would like to generate it as part of the visual studio build or as a post build event. I found a program (CmdHelper) that does this for .NET assemblies but it doesn't seem to work for what I need. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The Microsoft SOAP Toolkit comes with a WSDL generator, which will generate a WSDL file from a COM component. We use that where I work, and it seems to do the job. We haven't tried to integrate it into our build process - we've always run the tool by hand when we need to update the WSDL, and we check the generated WSDL into version control.

I see that Microsoft has deprecated this product, so there may be newer alternatives out there, but it works fine for us.