How can I prevent VS2010 to create a new binding each time I update a service reference?

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I'm developing a Winforms Client application with a WCF Service in C # 3.5 and Visual Studio 2010.

Every time I use "Update Service Reference" in the IDE, considering I have already a working binding in app.config, an additional binding entry is generated with the same name and a trailing "1".

My app.config on the client side is :

<bindings>
  <wsHttpBinding>
     <binding name="WSHttpBinding_IIssueTracker" closeTimeout="00:01:00"...

After a "Update Service Reference", I have :

<bindings>
  <wsHttpBinding>
     <binding name="WSHttpBinding_IIssueTracker" closeTimeout="00:01:00"...
     <binding name="WSHttpBinding_IIssueTracker1" closeTimeout="00:01:00"...

So I need to remove this unused binding all the time.

This is driving me nut. Is there a way to disable this behaviour ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '11 at 13:11

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The way we solved this was to move the Service Reference to a separate library, and delete the (newly generated) app.config from the library project after executing Update Service Reference.

answered Jul 01 '11 at 13:11

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I tried this: it works very well. I have even the feeling that my project structure looks cleaner. Thanks a lot ! – Larry Jul 04 '11 at 07:52
I normally just revert any changes to the app.config (using SVN)... that works equally well and doesn't require another project. I had the same question here, but it's not really resolved to my liking: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4625743/refreshing-service-references-updates-the-app-config – AtliB Oct 10 '11 at 12:05

How can I prevent VS2010 to create a new binding each time I update a service reference?

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