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Generate WCF (Windows Service Hosted) host server with XML comments?

I have a small problem that I could not find a solution to. I am developing a simple WCF service (VS2010, .NET 4.0, Windows hosting).

I have no control over the client side, so I need to make it as simple as possible for the programmer to use my WCF service.

My idea is simply to provide the client side programmer with the URL that you will receive when I go to my service. .svcutil.exe http://localhost:7070/Historian.WCFSvc/mex

The problem is that when I create a proxy class that runs svcutil.exe on the url, I don’t get XML comments for intellisense?!?!

I googled around and stumbled on this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa717040.aspx

I stole the code from a sample project, but I quickly realized that simply providing the URL to my service is not enough.

I really don’t understand how to make it work, how to pass the WsdlDocumentation attributes to the generated proxy class ?! I probably need a guide or the like that covers me. Has anyone used this sample code and maybe helped me with the walkthrough?

The download page for sample code is at the bottom of the page that I am associated with. (Since I'm new here, I can only post one link ... sorry!)

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I used some time to create my proxy classes and they seem to inherit xml comments, maybe you will try this

svcutil /t:metadata http://localhost:7070/Historian.WCFSvc/mex
svcutil /t:code *.wsdl *.xsd /out:Proxy.cs /config:Proxy.config

Good luck :)

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