Comments on: “Add Service Reference” option not appearing in Visual Studio 2008

By: Dominique Duchemin

Dominique Duchemin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:50:15 +0000

Hello,

I was able to load VS 2008 but still no Add Service Reference… Also I am not able to locate the Application tab of your project’s properties (Tool Bar > Project > Properties or Right Click oin Solution Explorer on the Top line > Properties) I see only Configuration Active (Development) with Build, Deployment utility, Debugging…
Am I looking at the wrong place?

Thanks,
Dom

By: g2-902125243db7d5e697a20ae0137565ac

g2-902125243db7d5e697a20ae0137565ac — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:43:58 +0000

Hello

I amk able to see Add Web Reference but not Add Service Reference Why?
I am using BIDS … is it not available?
I need to load the SP List…

Thanks,
Dom

By: prabhakar

prabhakar — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:30:29 +0000

Hi ,

While adding a service reference, the service name comes under the service reference but it is not expandable though it contains some services, also the refernce.cs file is not adding in the solution, am i missing something??
any suggetions???

By: Bradley Ward

Bradley Ward — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:04:47 +0000

In the first comment on this thread, Matt said if anyone ever ran across a list of project type GUIDs, to let him know. Here you go:
http://www.mztools.com/Articles/2008/MZ2008017.aspx

By: rig

rig — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:34:01 +0000

Hi i have a problem.
My add Reference->PROJECT REFERENCE Tab is empty although i have a lot of projects.
How do i add projects in teh project reference tab.

By: Dana Nurse

Dana Nurse — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:03:09 +0000

If you have a solution with a number of assemblies, and one of said assemblies needs to access a wcf service, simply changing the framework targeted can have undesirable results, including the solution not building.

There may also be the case that the solution you are building cannot be deployed as the target environment may only have 2.0

Fortunately I have found that you can change the target of the assembly to say 3.5. Add the ‘service’ reference. Then change the target back to 2.0

All builds ok and the service works

Explanations ? – don’t ask me!!

By: MAШTAГИHEЦ

MAШTAГИHEЦ — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:35:17 +0000

Очень даже любопытно. В особенности второе.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:03:28 +0000

Excellent! Thanks for the info.

By: Sid

Sid — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:57:25 +0000

Here’s how you can access the older “Add Web Reference” dialog in VS 2008:

Click on the “Advanced” button in the “Add Service Reference” dialog. That’ll pop the “Service Reference Settings” dialog where the “Add Web Reference” button now resides.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:50:46 +0000

On VS2008 when I switched to .NET 3.0 I lost the “Add Web Reference” and gained the “Add Service Reference”. When I switched back to .NET 2.0 I lost the “Add Service Reference” and gained the “Add Web Reference”.