Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Creating Service Reference: Failed to generate code for the service reference

I was working on Windows Service that was consuming another WCF Windows Service. I created a Service Reference in Visual Studio 2008 and noticed that client code was not automatically generating. The error I was getting was

Error 4 Custom tool error: Failed to generate code for the service reference 'MyWindowsService'. Please check other error and warning messages for details.

The Windows Service I was working on was already full blown project with lots of references, so to limit possibilities I created another empty windows service and added Service Reference to one I need. Client code was generated with no problems! I decided to use new Windows Service as a base and added all required functionality to it and selected “Update Service Reference” and again it failed to generate a code!

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After some time looking around there was an easy solution to fix a problem. You need to edit Service Reference Configuration by selecting “Configure Service Reference…” from right click menu.

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In the dialog box Un-tick “Reuse types in referenced assembles” and click OK. Try to Update Service Reference. This worked for me!

References

.NET C# Broken WCF service reference in VS 2008

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73 comments:

  1. Anonymous14 April 2009 at 04:24

    Nice! Thanks! You saved me!

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  2. Anonymous2 May 2009 at 07:21

    saved me too! I spent WAY too long on this
    thank-you

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  3. Anonymous17 June 2009 at 07:04

    Thanks! I got this error when I started using compression (http://dimebrain.com/2008/06/compression-i-1.html). Had no idea that it was related until I read this page.

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  4. Anonymous31 July 2009 at 01:08

    Thanks! I would never have found this one...

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  5. Anonymous4 August 2009 at 22:23

    Any idea what that option (Reuse types) is for?

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  6. Anonymous18 August 2009 at 07:34

    Thank you! Developing a demonstration with Telerik Drag and Drop Silverlight Control, which communicates with an SQL Server database, and required a web service.

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  7. Anonymous21 August 2009 at 00:16

    Thanks!!!

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  8. Vlad26 August 2009 at 18:36

    Reuse Types need to be ticked to define classes in referenced DLLs that should not be generated, but reused from their definitions.

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  9. Anonymous27 August 2009 at 08:10

    Thanks!! It was driving me crazy!

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  10. Anonymous10 October 2009 at 05:19

    My thanks as well! Wow.

    Dave

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  11. Dyson Liu25 November 2009 at 18:36

    Thank you very munch!!

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  12. Anonymous2 December 2009 at 03:50

    Thank you!! That saves me!

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  13. John4 December 2009 at 21:33

    Wsdl not updating problem fixed nicely. Very well done sir, you've saved my hair.

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  14. Dalamar11 December 2009 at 06:19

    Thank a lol for this solution.

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  15. Ryan Andres22 December 2009 at 09:10

    It worked!! Thank you. I wonder why it worked before with that option checked, but not anymore. Can anyone explain?

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  16. Anonymous1 January 2010 at 01:04

    Not good when I need to reference the types. This was working until yesterday, then I added a generic property to a web service, obviously this refused to be run-time serialized (although it would compile fine). Removing this property and rebuilding everything several times and still it wont generate the reference.cs. Why is this so much hassle? Where is the feedback from the Microsoft tools? Their usability is shockingly poor.

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  17. Anonymous14 January 2010 at 03:26

    thanx a million!

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  18. Anonymous27 January 2010 at 02:46

    I can't believe Microsoft left it ticked as default, what a bugger! Annoying!!!!!

    My thanks to this post as well.

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  19. Anonymous3 March 2010 at 09:59

    Oh man, you rock. Super quick fix!

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  20. Anonymous16 March 2010 at 03:54

    Thank you, I was losing my mind

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  21. Anonymous19 March 2010 at 01:17

    This is not a solution!

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  22. Anonymous19 March 2010 at 12:02

    thanks man, awesome, fixed straight away, LEGEND.....

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  23. Anonymous31 March 2010 at 01:04

    Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!

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  24. RandomThoughts8 April 2010 at 02:57

    Thanks a lot....That worked like a charm :)

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  25. Anonymous10 April 2010 at 03:05

    Thanks very much!! Saved my day!!

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  26. John Richards28 April 2010 at 19:14

    Brilliant, Thank you.

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  27. Anonymous30 April 2010 at 20:55

    Thanks !!

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  28. Lee Rodgers21 May 2010 at 03:35

    This was very helpful. Typically the re-use works. I need to use re-use but select specific types. This is necessary due to the multiple services sharing the same references.

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  29. Tarang Mogre4 June 2010 at 14:09

    absolutely brilliant.. thanks a lot.

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  30. Anonymous25 June 2010 at 03:26

    Thanksssssssssss so mucccccccccchhhhhhhhhh

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  31. Anonymous15 July 2010 at 00:17

    As just said on March 19th, 2010: this is not a solution.
    PM&LV

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  32. Anonymous25 August 2010 at 08:24

    Good Stuff... Life saver

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  33. Anonymous25 September 2010 at 02:58

    Good one. This one helped me. Thank you...

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  34. Anonymous21 October 2010 at 03:21

    Thank you so much!! Saved me big time.

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  35. Anonymous3 November 2010 at 19:15

    Thank you!

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  36. Anonymous15 December 2010 at 05:58

    Thanks. I spent a lot of time on this.

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  37. Anonymous23 February 2011 at 21:41

    I had the same problem. When I unchecked "Reuse..." it worked. When I later checked it again it still worked.

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  38. Anonymous16 March 2011 at 08:22

    Awesome! Thanks - Saved me a lot of time

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  39. Anonymous31 March 2011 at 08:16

    Thanks, saved me a bunch of time!

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  40. Anonymous12 April 2011 at 19:55

    omg... thank you soooooooooooooo much!!!
    thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

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  41. Froggie11 May 2011 at 19:39

    -worships-

    I was doing the exact opposite. It didn't occur to me do un-tick the box. I'm an idiot. You're not. Thanks :)!

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  42. Anonymous8 June 2011 at 03:33

    thanks!.. u saved me..

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  43. Anonymous18 June 2011 at 05:12

    Thanks a lot!! really helped in saving so much time...!!!

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  44. Anonymous23 June 2011 at 08:27

    thank you !

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  45. Walaa27 June 2011 at 23:02

    THNX A LOT, it worked !!

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  46. Anonymous8 July 2011 at 08:51

    thx man :)

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  47. Anonymous1 August 2011 at 09:11

    ... IT WORKED ... !

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  48. Anonymous15 August 2011 at 01:04

    Doesn't help me. I need those types. And it has worked for me before. This is ridiculous and one of the reasons why I am groing to despise microsoft's development environment

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  49. Anonymous8 November 2011 at 16:58

    worked!

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  50. Anonymous23 November 2011 at 10:04

    so easy but it takes me so many hours
    Thank you

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  51. Anonymous22 December 2011 at 19:29

    FTW Man FTW - you are the best! Like everyone else said - saved me!

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  52. Anonymous13 January 2012 at 17:50

    Nice Clue Buddy.

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  53. Gakk3 February 2012 at 01:57

    Thanks :-)

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  54. Anonymous6 March 2012 at 02:02

    Same issue in VS2010. Thanks for posting your solution.

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  55. Anonymous27 March 2012 at 02:44

    Wow, thank you.

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  56. Anonymous18 April 2012 at 02:22

    2 days of headache, very thanks, is that!!! solved.

    Gláucio.

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  57. Anonymous20 June 2012 at 17:32

    Post is 3 years old and helped me with VS 2012!

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  58. Anonymous28 June 2012 at 06:54

    This appears to be the tip that keeps on giving! Thanks much!!!

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  59. Unknown3 July 2012 at 14:05

    Thanks so much!

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  60. Anonymous1 August 2012 at 05:17

    Thanks so much!

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  61. Anonymous1 August 2012 at 22:54

    Wow... can't believe how many people had this problem... Thanks man!

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  62. Xavier15 August 2012 at 17:14

    It blows my mind how many people have had this issue and not figured out what the real root of the issue was.

    most of you will have 3 projects, a common, a webservice and a app that consumes the webservice. both the webservice and the app will have the common's assembly referenced.

    Now unchecking the reuse types only works because you are bypassing the real fault, which is you have made a change to the common assembly and either the webservice or the app has not got the latest version, so when you update the service reference there is a mismatch and the service reference cannot properly refresh.

    Simply clean all 3 projects, manually inspect each project's bin folders to ensure the common assembly is gone and in the case of a webservice running in a test vs/iis process kill that process and start it again.

    Your problem will be resolved.

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    1. Anonymous6 October 2015 at 19:26

      Dude you are a lifesaver. It took me a day to find this and it's such an easy problem to solve. Thank you!

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  63. Anonymous14 September 2012 at 21:15

    Still works, helped me today!

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  64. Anonymous27 September 2012 at 18:41

    Thanks!! You help me a lot!!

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  65. Anonymous6 October 2012 at 05:43

    I don't mean to be the guy who doens't fit in here, but this post did not help me. The magic checkbox didn't work. However, I was able to get it to work by following Xavier's advice (three comments up). Thanks Xavier!

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  66. Anonymous5 December 2012 at 16:58

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  67. Anonymous16 February 2013 at 18:49

    Thank you
    Life saver

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  68. Anonymous3 July 2013 at 08:47

    Thank you so much! This was really helpful!

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  69. Anonymous18 July 2013 at 20:24

    Thanks a lot...

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  70. Anonymous15 August 2013 at 18:39

    Thank you, respect.

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  71. Praba6 March 2014 at 08:55

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    I Helped my eye ...........................................................

    Lovely Carrie the fantastic service.............

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  72. Anonymous13 May 2014 at 22:03

    Chuck Noris spent three hours on this and could not find a solution! THANKS!

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