WCF Rest Service: Tool for creating strongy typed classes via the help pages?

Question

Hi there,

can anyone tell me if there is a tool for creating the strongly typed classes (available via the schema) - i suppose similar to Paste as XML type ..

But i was hoping for a tool that i could run to automatically update the classes automatically when there are changes

Does anyone know if something like this exists?

Answer 1

If you have a WCF Data Service (f.k.a. "Astoria" or "ADO.NET Data Service"), you can use the regular Add Service Reference in Visual Studio, point it to the SVC file for the service, and voila - you get a data service client side proxy, with strong types and all, and the ability to query your data service (a REST service) using LINQ - LINQ-to-REST, so to speak!

See the MSDN docs for a few more bits of info.