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by ilitirit 4050 days ago
Why did you go all the way down to that level? If you could not generate the .NET types from the WSDL (WCF provides tools to do this), you could modify the message using WCF itself. No reason to use a DSL.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa717047%28v=vs.110...

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Because I was frustrated and could not figure out how Microsoft wanted the framework to be used. I was new to both WS and WCF at the time. getting WCF configuration working seemed more like a voodoo incantation than any other programming I've ever done.

And no I could not get .NET to generate types from the WSDL and I knew about the tools provided for that. They didn't work and I wasted a lot of time on them because everything I read said they should work.

I used a DSL because that's what I knew and because I had already wasted too much time.

I've since learned to avoid situations like this but that's a whole 'nother comment.