For Beginners : How to compile a .cs file without visual studio

Generate a proxy of a WCF Service

SVCUTIL.exe is the tool used to generate proxy of a WCF Service class. A simple way of creating a proxy with all default options is :

• Open Microsoft Visual Studio Command Prompt 2010.
• svcutil.exe [assembly name]- This will generate the .wsdl & .xsd files.
• svcutil *.wsdl *.xsd /language:C# - This will generate the proxy class(.cs file) and output.config file.
• Add the proxy class to your client project and copy the content of the output.config file to App.Config file.