Generating the WSDL before writing your Web Service
Comments(2) A lot of projects that I have worked on required me to provide the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file way before I was done writing the Web Service. Reason being that the WSDL file acts like a contract between the two communicating parties. This contract allows rapid development as one team is not waiting on the other to move forward.
thinktecture has an absolutely fantastic tool to do this. I use thinktecture’s WSCF – Web Services Contract First plugin for Visual Studio 2005 on a regular basis now and the documentation is very helpful to get you up and running in a jiffy.
Brief description of WSCF from thinktecture’s website:
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WSCF offers a simple yet powerful WSDL Wizard that abstracts away all the nitty-gritty details of WSDL and therefore does not give room for making errors and wrong assumptions just by trying to use and applying everything that can be done stated by the original WSDL specification.
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You can find it here: http://www.thinktecture.com/resourcearchive/tools-and-software/wscf
Thanks thinktecture!
