Introducing dotnet-svcutil

The Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) dotnet-svcutil tool is a .NET Core CLI tool that retrieves metadata from a web service on a network location or from a WSDL file, and generates a WCF class containing client proxy methods that you can use to access the web service operations.

Similarly to the Service Model Metadata - svcutil tool for .NET Framework projects, the dotnet-svcutil is a command line tool for generating a web service reference compatible with .NET Core and .NET Standard projects.

The dotnet-svcutil tool is an alternative option to the WCF Web Service Reference Visual Studio connected service provider which first shipped with Visual Studio 2017 v15.5. The dotnet-svcutil tool as a .NET Core CLI tool, however, can be run on multiple platforms like Linux and MacOS in addition to Windows.

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