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

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:08:37 +0000

Thanks Matt for mentioning the ProjectTypeGuid workaround. And thanks Andrew for confirming that it works.

By: Dorchester Software

Dorchester Software — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:06:46 +0000

Hey thanks for that. THAT WORKED.

Switching the project Guids I had for the ones you listed above fixed it. I now have the “Add Service Reference” context menu item. The second ProjectTypeGuid I had was already the same but the first was different. Trying running the project and it doesn’t seem to have adversely effected anything else.

Like I say, I already had the project properties set to Target framework 3.5 so that by itself wasn’t enough. But manually editing the ProjectTypeGuids as Matt specified fixed it.

CHEERS!

By: Dorchester Software

Dorchester Software — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:59:23 +0000

Comment system ate my tags too!
What I said was “I’ll try working with the ProjectTypeGuids thing”

By: Dorchester Software

Dorchester Software — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:56:13 +0000

My project properties definitely are targeting framework 3.5, but Add Service Reference still does not appear on a particular project.

I’ll try working with the thing… maybe that will fix it.

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:16:22 +0000

In your webproject properties Application section set Target Framework to 3.5.
Then you will see Add Service Reference.

GeneV

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:23:24 +0000

Your comment system ate my tags. It should read:

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By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:22:35 +0000

I’ve run into some interesting issues regarding this as well, especially when doing WF or WCF projects. A lot of times it boils down to a missing line in the .csproj file, where it needs to have something like:

{14822709-B5A1-4724-98CA-57A101D1B079};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}

Those GUIDs are defined inside Visual Studio and turn on/off certain features of Visual Studio. I think those two deal with workflow projects, so try and generate a brand new WCF project with Visual Studio and then open up the .csproj file in Notepad to see which GUIDs it uses.

If anyone runs across a list of GUIDs and what features they turn on/off, I’d like to see it. Right now it borders on an “undocumented feature”