I have an issue with the generation of a WCF Client. The main project is called TestX. In that project, I'd like to include a WCF Service named MgmtService. I can include that service in another project just fine.
I add the connected service reference and (on purpose) I name it ServiceReference1 (I have tried other arbitrary names as well to rule out a namespace clash - no change).
Immediately when I try to to compile, I will get the error message
The type name 'ServiceReference1' does not exist in the type 'TestX'
What really gets me is, that I can add an additional project (a simple DLL) and then add the reference there and it will compile just fine and work like a charm.
How can I debug this issue? It looks like there is an underlying issue and it's not the creation of the client itself.
Well, of course it was a namespace clash, although at some completely different place than expected.
I had the namespace TestX used and since this was a windows service type application it also contained a class called TestX. This in itself was not an issue until I added the WCF Client.
Adding the WCF Client created the type TestX.ServiceReference1 BUT the compiler now didn't know if to use the namespace TestX or the class TestX.
Renaming the class which previously existed fixed the issue.
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I have a WCF service, called A which implements IA. This server uses some classes that are defined in a common class (in a common dll referenced by the A service dll). I have another WCF service, called B which implements IB.
Now, A and B have service reference to each other. This worked fine. But now, when I try to update IB I have a problem. I get a custom tool error failing to generate the code for the service reference. Unchecking the “Reuse types in referenced assemblies” solves this issue, but then I have to cast each type to itself (actually).
I created a separate project, in A solution, that has reference to B service. Now, I am able to add service reference, but I get ambiguous error for all types that are defined in the common dll. Any idea how to solve this issue?
I'm trying to consume a WCF 4.0 service in my application. I built, tested, and deployed the service from the ground up. The service works in the WCF test client and can be consumed in any other test project I built. The problem is this one particular application... the only one that matters as it's the reason I built the service.
When I build the application after referencing the service I get an error. The error is "The type name 'AAA' does not exist in the type 'YYY.YYY' ".
The project consuming the service is named 'YYY.Web' and is in the 'YYY' namespace.
The service was initially created in the 'YYY.ReportingService' namespace. It has been changed to a different namespace once this problem started. Is now in the 'MMM' namespace.
I added a using directive 'YYY.Service1'. I also tried aliasing the using directive (using test = YYY.Service1)
To make sure something wasn't messed up with my service and its namespaces, I built a new service with a single method. It takes a string parameter and returns "Hello, " and whatever string is passed. This services also works in the WCF test client and the couple of test projects I created. This service is in the SimpleTestService namespace, BasicService class, with a methiod named GetGreeting. Naming was done intentionally to avoid any possible naming collisions. The error still occurs with this new service.
Any thoughts on this? Thanks!
This one took me a while. Turned out, that "The type name 'AAA' does not exist in the type 'YYY.YYY' " was caused by the YYY.YYY - my consuming class sharing name with its containing namespace.
Solution: rename the consuming class to something that is not equal to the full name of its namespace, i.e. YYY.XXX.
I realize it's and old question, but I just had this problem and the issue was a namespace conflict.
In my case AAA was named ServiceClient and that generated the same error you experienced. Once I removed the namespace conflict (called it ConsoleClient instead) all worked as expected.
I have another issue. Imagine two projects with different namespaces and following classes
Project 1
[DataContract(Namespace="SomeNamespace")]
public class A
{
[DataMember]
public class B { get; set; }
}
Project 2
// Here no DataContract attribute
public class B
{
//...
}
In this case you'll get same error as above. Hopefully this will help someone.
Do you have an old version of the service DLL in the GAC? Your application might be referencing another version of the assembly hence the missing types.
I hope you have updated the service reference after renaming the namespace in the service. Usually you get this error when the client side proxy is not updated with the latest types form the server. You can try updating the service reference.
I have a WCF web service that I am working on and I built it and was delighted to find that I could use complex types in it. I added some and then realized that they were still not useable as those types on the client end. This is an internal web service so these types are known on both sides. Anyway, that's not the problem, as I took the complex types out, but I think it may have left some residual issues.
When I then changed my additions to all be base types (string, date, int, etc) then added the web service to the client project, I got a "[enumtype] is already defined" error. It occurred in the reference.cs file so I opened it up. Sure enough there were duplicate enums. Plus there were a bunch of helper (serializing) functions. The duplicate enum was from code that had been in there before I picked this web service up to work on. It had not caused an issue previously.
I opened up the reference.cs for the previous (successful) service reference. It did not have the duplicates or functions and also I noticed a difference between the entries that were in there. The reference.cs that was failing to compile had this additional attribute in several places:
[System.ServiceModel.XmlSerializerFormatAttribute()]
I also see that my new failed code was using string[] and the old was using ArrayOfString. I did not intentionally change this, but must have somehow set something differently in the process.
Does anyone have a few clues?
Thanks!
Have you tried deleting the service reference from the project and re-adding it? You may have to manually remove some (or all) of the serviceModel contents too. If that is the only Service Reference then definitely remove the serviceModel element contents too.
Once its all gone, re-add the Service Reference. If you're still having problems then it may be that the service metadata is generating invalid WSDL causing the duplicate enums.
UPDATE: Just for verifying the WSDL is not valid, you could try creating the service proxy manually using the SvcUtil command line utility. It generates your proxy code like Visual Studio does and may give you more troubleshooting info.
After a lot of experimentation this is what I found out:
Our web service up to this point was using the Request / Response classes for input and output. There were required in 1.0, and were a carry over from that. I attempted to create a simple entry point that sent in a string and returned a string. This compiled ok, but:
Although you can use regular types for input and output, if you are using Request / Response types exchanges for other entry points, then you cannot.
Mixed method of request / response and regular types will compile, but it will not successfully import (at least into Visual Studio 2008). What ends up being created seems to be an attempt to create input and output classes for all of the functions to translate them to their complex types, along with the Request / Response types which creates duplicate entries and will not compile.
This then also means that you cannot send in a request object and return a string (which is how I found out that this was not allowed) – this generated an error in the unit test, which started me down this path.
So if you have a request / response web service, all functions must follow that protocol.
I am attempting to replace a WSE service with the WCF equivalent where the WSDL is provided externally.
First, I used svcutil and wsdl to generate all the service and client classes (ATP, I'm only concerned with the service implementation.) I generated an empty WCF Service Library project and replaced/renamed the IService1.cs with a class named for the interface ServiceContractAttribute generated. I then renamed the implementation class Service1.cs with the name of the implementation-class JINDEXWcfListener.cs. I removed the generated code from this class and created class definition JINDEXWcfListener:[interface name].
The tool auto-generated the implementation of the interface. I used the single method adorned with [OperationContractAttribute] to put my local implementation code. I modified the default app.config generated to adjust the contract and service names as required.
When I start debug, I can see that the service is starting in the WTC. However, when the single operation is exposed, the is a red dot with a yellow question mark in front of the operation name. When I RC on the op name, I get "This operation is not supported in WCF Test client" with no additional information. What is wrong?
WCFTestClient has quite a few limitations. I have fought "problems" for several hours that later turned out to be just WCFTestClient problems. Complex objects can give you a lot of grief, also any custom lists, etc such as a custom implementation of the IList interface. Try out WcfStorm. I think they have a free version and a trial version.
Is it an acceptable programming practice to add a Service Reference to a Project where the Service being referenced is defined within the same VS Project? (Service and Service Reference are in the same Project)
example:
MyWebAppProj
-Services
--MyService
-Service References
--MyServiceServiceReference.MyServiceClient
-Default.aspx.cs uses MyServiceServiceReference.MyServiceClient
The rational behind this is that a Silverlight App may be added to the Project. If it is, we would have to expose all the Business Logic methods through a service layer, so why not just do that first and use them everywhere to stay standardized between web pages and Silverlight pages.
I can't see why you would want to do that at all.
If you're already inside the same project as the service, at the very least you've already got access to all the service/data contracts, so really, calling the service is already very, very easy. You can either use a ChannelFactory directly, or write your own custom ClientBase<T>-derived client proxy class (which is trivial), there's no reason why you'd want to add service reference in this case.
Furthermore, if you added a service reference, you'd then be stuck with a bunch of duplicate definitions in the same project, which makes little sense (yes, you can isolate the generated code into a separate namespace, but still).