Where is svcutil exe in Windows 7

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For my WCF  I need to generate configuration file for my client application to specify things such as binding of service  the address of the service and the contract

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To find any file location   In windows start menu Search box  type in svcutil exe Wait for results to populate Right click on svcutil exe and Select  Open file location  Copy Windows explorer path

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With latest version of windows  e g  Windows 10  other servers   type search for   Developers Command prompt     It will pop up the relevant command prompt for the Visual Studio version   e g  Developer Command Prompt for VS 2015   More here https   msdn microsoft com en-us library ms229859 v vs 110  aspx

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Type in the Microsoft Visual Studio Command Prompt  where svcutil exe  On my machine it is in  C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v6 0A bin SvcUtil exe

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I don t think it is very important to find the location of Svcutil exe  You can use Visual Studio Command prompt to execute directly without its absolute path   Syntax  svcutil exe  language  vb cs   out  YourClassName   cs vb   config  YourAppConfigFile config   YourServiceAddress   example  svcutil exe  language cs  out MyClientClass cs  config app config http   localhost 8370 MyService

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Try to generate the proxy class via SvcUtil exe with command   Syntax   svcutil exe  language  lt type gt   out  lt name gt  cs  config  lt name gt  config http    lt host address gt   lt port gt    Example   svcutil exe  language cs  out generatedProxy cs  config app config http   localhost 8000 ServiceSamples myService1   To check if service is available try in your IE URL from example upon without myService1 postfix

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If you are using vs 2010 then you can get it in  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0A Bin NETFX 4 0 Tools

[wcf] Where is svcutil.exe in Windows 7?

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