Building WSDLs from .NET assemblies

More of a reminder to myself than anything else, here's a batch file that creates proxy classes that can talk to WCF services. The WCF service interfaces are defined in the Visual Studio project build output. Then it's a simple matter of using the svcutil command line utility from the .NET SDK to go through the motions. This turns out to be a great way to automate the creation of WSDLs for non-.NET clients, and a good way to create proxy classes that you have a lot more control over than the “Add Service Reference” approach in Visual Studio.

set outDir=..\build\wcs-wsdl
set wsdlDir=..\lib\wcs-wsdl
set svc="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\svcutil.exe"
set msbuild="C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\msbuild.exe"

rmdir /s /q %outDir%
mkdir %outDir%

%msbuild% ..\source\Woolpert.Cityworks.Services\Woolpert.Cityworks.Services.csproj
%svc% ..\source\Woolpert.Cityworks.Services\bin\Debug\Woolpert.Cityworks.Services.dll
%svc% *.xsd www.woolpert.com.wis.cityworks.wsdl /language:C# /out:%outDir%\CityworksClient.cs
%svc% *.xsd www.woolpert.com.wis.security.wsdl /language:C# /out:%outDir%\SecurityClient.cs
%svc% *.xsd www.woolpert.com.wis.spatial.wsdl /language:C# /out:%outDir%\SpatialClient.cs
xcopy *.xsd %wsdlDir%\ /I /Y
xcopy *.wsdl %wsdlDir%\ /I /Y
xcopy *.config %wsdlDir%\ /I /Y
del /q *.xsd
del /q *.wsdl
del /q *.config

In my other projects that need access to clients I can then run a subset of this script and be all set for consuming the web services:

set output=MyMiddleware.cs
del %output%
set svc="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bin\svcutil.exe"
%svc% *.wsdl *.xsd /language:C# /o:%output%