How to create a single WSDL file from existing WCF service?

Question

How do I create a single flat WSDL file (with no external references from within) from an existing WCF service? This WSDL will be used (imported) into an older programming t

Answer 1

I had to do this, too. And I used the WSDLExtras library. It's not too big of a deal.

Here is a step by step instruction for using it:

1. Download the WCFExtras from here, extract it and add a reference to it in VS.

2. Add a reference to your Web.config/App.config like this:

3. Add the extension to your endpoint behavior and set the singleFile attribute to true

4. Use the endpointbehavior for your service-endpoint.

This worked fine for me. You can also download a full example from the WCFExtras project page: ProjectPage

Edit: For the sake of completeness: You can use the ''?singleWsdl'' query parameter since .NET 4.5 as stated in Irwins answer. See the link he posted for more details.