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Why does publishing a WCF client application include a Service Links folder?

When I publish a web application that uses a WCF service folder Service Referencescontaining a few svcinfo, svcmapand wsdlalso copied (checked by means of publication in the file system).

However, these files are not needed to run the application (although they are obviously necessary to develop and compile the application). Why are they included, even if the project settings indicate that "you need to use only the files necessary to run this application"? Is this a bug in Visual Studio or is there some purpose?

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You never cease to amaze me with the number of questions here that cannot get the attention they deserve. Hope I can help you close this as this is a good question.

I believe that this is just to define a contract. The Service Links folder is more like metadata. You use it only for debugging and discovering (therefore * .disco) information about the service.

You should simply exclude the folder from live sites, since your web.config has all the information about the service's runtime (URI, etc.).

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