Our customer sent us a WSDL file for their web service API. We used Visual Studio's "Add Service Reference" to consume it.
However: we only want to generate a service proxy, not the data contract classes. We want to reuse classes we already have within a referenced assembly.
This comes down to the following options on the Advanced... part of "Add Service Reference":
which also map to the /r
/ /reference
option in svcutil.exe
.
This defaults to enabled, so if it isn't working: there's a good chance your types are not exact matches. The easiest way to ensure exact matches is to reference the same library dll from both projects, or worst case the same .cs file (a dll reference would be preferable, IMO). The data-contract namespace and name are the usual culprits here, and must match exactly (as must the members).