WCF: WSDL-first approach: Problems with generating fault types

Question

I\'m currently in the process of creating a WCF webservice which should be compatible with WS-I Basic Profile 1.1. I\'m using a wsdl-first approach (actually for the first time)

Answer 1

I think your problem is that you need to add elementFormDefault="qualified" as an attribute to the xsd:schema part of your wsdl. That worked for me.

Answer 2

I can give you an example of a fault that is being correctly generated for me through svcutil (with /useSerializerForFaults):

<xsd:schema targetNamespace="http://myproduct.mycompany.com/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" />
  <xsd:complexType name="MyError">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <!-- other stuff -->
      <xsd:element name="description" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
  </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>

Is it possible that you are simply missing the namespace for your types?

This is the generated code:

/// <remarks/>
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("svcutil", "3.0.4506.2152")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "http://myproduct.mycompany.com/")]
public partial class MyError
{

  // other stuff

  private string descriptionField;

  /// <remarks/>
  [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(Form = System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified, Order = 1)]
  public string description
  {
    get
    {
      return this.descriptionField;
    }
    set
    {
      this.descriptionField = value;
    }
  }
}

And this is my full svcutil cmd line statement (note that I am generating a service reference for a given existing service - but it shouldn't make much of a difference in terms of code generation):

svcutil /t:code /out:C:\MyRepository\GeneratedCode\MyServiceReference.cs /n:*,myproduct.mycompany.servicereference /UseSerializerForFaults C:\MyRepository\*.wsdl C:\MyRepository\*.xsd /config:C:\MyRepository\GeneratedCode\MyServiceReference.config