Use the Service Generator

The Well-Enabled Services (WES) Generator makes use of a utility called the Service Generator (ServiceGenerator.exe). You must deploy the Connected Services Framework Integration Kit in order to install the Service Generator. The default location of this tool is \Program Files\Microsoft Hosting\Development\References\CSF.

You can use the Service Generator from a command prompt. This topic describes the syntax and arguments for using this tool.

Syntax
ServiceGenerator.exe /t:<wes|aspnet> /s:<MPFNamespaceFile> /n:<codeNamespace> /c:<className> /i:<imports>[,imports,...] [/o:<targetDir>] [/v:<off|error|info|verbose] [/p:<Csharp|VisualBasic]
Argument Use Description
/t Required
  • Type - Select type of Web Service generation. Connected Services Framework (CSF) Well-Enabled Service and ASP.NET 2.0 Web Service are supported.
  • Enum
    • Wes - Generate CSF 3.0 compliant service
    • AspNet - Generate ASP.NET 2.0 Web Service
/s Required Source - The path of the Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) namespace file that contains the provisioning API and XML Schema Definitions that will provide the basis for the generated service.
/n Required Namespace - The .NET namespace for the generated service.
/c Required Class - The class name for the generated service.
/i Required Imports - One or more namespaces that will be declared as import or using statements depending on the output language. Supplied as a comma-delimited list.
/o Optional Output Directory - Output directory for generated files. If not supplied the current directory of execution is used.
/v Optional
  • Verbosity - Set the verbosity level of the console output. "Info" is the default verbosity mode.
  • Enum
    • off
    • error
    • info
    • verbose
/p Optional
  • Provider (CodeDom) - The CodeDomProvider type for generating source code.
  • Enum
    • Csharp
    • VisualBasic