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What I personally would love to see are two new switched alongside midl.exe /mktyplib203:  

/wsdl – Verifies that all attributes used are applicable to a wsdl contract and then generates a *.wsdl file from IDL

/serviceModel – Verifies that all attributes are System.ServiceModel compatible and then generates a *.cpp...

I’ll write a few more parts of my little Indigo series next weekend (too busy during the week), and will move from “throw arbitrary XML on the wire” to typed messages. However, before I’ll do so, I am curious about your opinion and I am asking you to comment (on the blog-site) on which of the following two declarations you would prefer.

I should probably quickly explain a few things before...

Christian Weyer is staying at my place for the next three nights, because we’re both presenting at a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 training at Microsoft’s Neuss office, which is more or less down the street (highway) from where I live. Christian brought some good beer from his region (Franken – Bavaria’s northern part) and we’re having some of that, watch some TV (“We Were Soldiers” and “Broken Arrow”, we’re just guys like...

[Read Part 1 and Part 2 first]

Like with parts 1 and 2, I’ll stick with the “this isn’t RPC” theme for this 3^rd part of this little series and will show how to flow free form XML from and to services. However, I will drop the “client”/”server” nomenclature from here on and will talk about endpoints. If you look at the contract below (along with the following explanation, of course),...