Why is reference.vb hierarchally linked to reference.map?

Hello.

When generating a webservice proxy i notice that reference.vb is
heirarchally linked to reference.map.
Why is this since if i delete reference.map and re-include reference.vb my
project compiles and runs just fine?

Ive done a liitle reading on msdn about this but this has left me with the
understanding that ref.map is basically just a discovery log.
It doesn;t seem to have any runtime purpose at all? At least not post proxy
generation? I dont even want most of this guff including the wsdl most of
the time once my proxy has been generated and i surely cant see what
purpose it serves (ref.map) nor why it is linked in this way?

Any thoughts?

Richard


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