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Can't reuse types for WCF Service Reference in Visual Studio 2022 .NET Framework 4.8 project
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Corey L
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Trying to add a WCF service reference in a .NET Framework 4.8 project. We have a package that includes the data types the Web Service uses and would like to reuse them. However, we can't seem to reuse the types. I have the NuGet package installed. I have tried manually putting the DLL in the project bin and directly adding an assembly reference. Nothing seems to allow VS 2022 to find the reference. I have done this with .NET 6 projects successfully and am trying to figure out why I can't seem to do the same here.
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QiYou-MSFT 4,341 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2023-07-20T08:55:37.71+00:00 According to your description, you ran successfully in .NET 6.0 and failed in .NET Framework 4.8. This may be because your package does not support the .NET Framework 4.8. Since you didn't give what package you were using, and the bug report, I can only speculate at this time. When you give more information, I can better help you solve the problem.
Best Regards
Qi You
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Andrii Kudriavtsev 15 Reputation points2023-08-28T14:39:21.9366667+00:00 Hello @QiYou-MSFT
Currently, I'm transferring projects from Project ToolsVersion="15.0" to Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk" without changing a target framework (net48), this is for the further transition to net6.0 (or whatever future LTS version) and I faced the exact same problem, the checkbox for the type reusing is simply disabled for the Microsoft.NET.Sdk project if you target any net framework version and it works if you target any net core version. The project doesn't use any packages, it uses only project references.
Also, I tried to enable type reusing in ConnectedService.json and use dotnet svcutil to update Reference.cs file, but unfortunately, I got no result.
If you have any workaround for this please let me know.Best regards,
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Wiktor KUBIS 0 Reputation points2025-10-07T10:13:52.9366667+00:00 I got this exactly same problem - migrating net48 to sdk style project.
Reuse types is disabled....
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Wiktor KUBIS 0 Reputation points
2025-12-14T08:18:25.51+00:00 Is there going to be a fix for that in near future? VS 2026 has same problem....
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