Re: System.Configuration does not support config files for libraries.

Steven Cheng wrote:
Hi Bill,

Seems what you want to do is sharing some custom classes/types (defined in a class library) between the WCF service and client application. For WCF there is type sharing support. Here are two artifcles which has mentioned some information on this;

#Type sharing in WCF service reference
http://blogs.msdn.com/lifenglu/archive/2007/05/09/type-sharing-in-wcf-servic
e-reference.aspx

#Sharing WCF Collection Types between Service and Client
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFCollectionTypeSharing.aspx

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote:
Bill,

I assume you are referring to WCF given the nature of your previous post.

Assuming that, you are confusing the config file (which is just an XML file with config info) with the assembly itself (the DLL). You can easily distribute a DLL to both sides (client and server). It's the config file you can't share (well, in WCF's case, you actually could assuming you had no clients in the service, and no other services in the client).

Well, I'm referring to WCF in general. Thanks you.


Thanks Steven. I think that is indeed for what I'm looking. However, I expected this to be a little more trivial that it appears to be.

I guess I'm now left with two nagging questions:

1. Why is type sharing frowned upon?

2. How can a client app be written, using intellisense, without type sharing?


Thanks,

Bill
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