Failing to generate proxy from WSDL in VS2017

Question

I have a WSDL that I try to generate a client proxy from within Visual Studio 2017.

1. Right click project name (WinForm)
2. Add > Service Reference
3. Paste WSDL adr
4. Click OK

Now I got 1 error and 20 warnings

Error

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference 'ServiceReference1'. Please check other error and warning messages for details. WindowsFormsApp1 c:\\users\\Me\\source\\repos\\WindowsFormsApp1\\WindowsFormsApp1\\Connected Services\\ServiceReference1\\Reference.svcmap 1

Warnings(some of them)

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Warning Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:port Detail: There was an error importing a wsdl:binding that the wsdl:port is dependent on. XPath to wsdl:binding: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='MyTest.GetInformation:v2']/wsdl:binding[@name='GetInformationBinding'] XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='MyTest.GetInformation:v2']/wsdl:service[@name='GetInformationService']/wsdl:port[@name='GetInformationPort'] WindowsFormsApp1 c:\\users\\Me\\source\\repos\\WindowsFormsApp1\\WindowsFormsApp1\\Connected Services\\ServiceReference1\\Reference.svcmap 1

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Warning Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:binding Detail: There was an error importing a wsdl:portType that the wsdl:binding is dependent on. XPath to wsdl:portType: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='MyTest.GetInformation:v2']/wsdl:portType[@name='GetInformationInterface'] XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='MyTest.GetInformation:v2']/wsdl:binding[@name='GetInformationBinding'] WindowsFormsApp1 c:\\users\\Me\\source\\repos\\WindowsFormsApp1\\WindowsFormsApp1\\Connected Services\\ServiceReference1\\Reference.svcmap 1

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Warning Custom tool warning: Cannot import wsdl:portType Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.ServiceModel.Description.XmlSerializerMessageContractImporter Error: The datatype 'MyTest.attentionSignal:v1:II' is missing. XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[@targetNamespace='MyTest.GetInformation:v2']/wsdl:portType[@name='GetInformationInterface'] WindowsFormsApp1 c:\\users\\Me\\source\\repos\\WindowsFormsApp1\\WindowsFormsApp1\\Connected Services\\ServiceReference1\\Reference.svcmap 1

SoapUI 5.3.0 can generate proxy from the same WSDL and I can also genereate it by using Web Reference (compability mode 2.0) in VS2017. The later solution do however not work for me becouse I have code from v1 of this WSDL that I want to reuse.

Edit :

Here is the WSDL, add it as a service referece in VS 2017 and you should see the problem : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AskujIssKpne6170QEQdCLrkG8-u

Answer 1

• you should download wsdl locally using browser then follow your rest steps
• Right click project name (WinForm)
• Add > Service Reference
• Paste WSDL local path and Click OK

Update : If above way is not working.You can try another way - Create web proxy by XSD.exe using below command

wsdl.exe [path To Your WSDL File] //in visual studio command line

• That will generate proxy classes which you can copy/move to your project and use it.