thinktecture has released Version 0.6 of their hugely popular Visual Studio Add-In for developing web services using a contract first approach. The new version has been updated to work with Visual Studio 2005 & .Net 2.0. This version also offers a command line interface to the code generation tool. Here are some highlights:
- Full support for Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0
- Generation of partial classes
- Support for Nullable types
- Support for SOAP 1.2 binding
- Pascal case conversion is now optional
- Improved support for generating code from SSL-hosted WSDLs
- The parameter ?wsdl can be configured to return the modeled WSDL
- Option for generating different styles of async calling code
- Option for generating improved data binding code available
- Option for generating List
types instead of Collections - As always – it’s free!