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createUnfortunaly Silverlight 2 didn’t ship with any utility to generate a proxy class from the command line. Generating service proxy classes as service reference isn’t the way to go for me. Michael Giagnocavo wrote a little utility that makes use of a dll shiped with Silverlight to generate a proxy gut this one fails for me when I generate a little more complex proxy then HelloWorld. for example when I use multiple namespaces etc.

The Proxy classes of SVCUtil aren’t compatible with Silverlight 2. But they are not that much different. So I wrote a little utility converts a SVCUtil generated proxy class to a proxy class Silverlight can use. It also makes it possible to seperate your data contracts and your proxy. To automate this I use a little commandline script that executes it all.

silverlightsvcutilrepair
Command script for SilverlightSVCUtilRepair
silverlightsvcutilrepair Source

Generating Silverlight Proxy

1. Generate Async Proxy with SVCUtil
2. Run SilverlightSVCUtilRepair.exe
3. Include the generated file in your project
4. Compile your code

Generate Silverlight Proxy with shared DataContracts

1. Generate Datacontracts with SVCUtil
   Give your datacontracts a different CLR Namespace(s)
2. Run SilverlightSVCUtilRepair.exe
3. Generate Async Proxy with SVCUtil
   Give the datacontracts a different CLR Namespace(s)
4. Run SilverlightSVCUtilRepair.exe
5. Include your generated files in your project
6. Compile your code