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If you ever had the chance to use a tool to generate .NET code inside Visual Studio .NET from a Web services interface and message contract (aka WSDL & XSD) that offers the following features in addition to this) - would you actually use it?

• More 'intuitive' GUI (e.g. default button, tooltips on controls, correct tab order) - well at least for an angle brackets guy ...
    - If you right-click on a WSDL file in project you can choose 'Generate Web service Code...'
    - If you right-click on a project you can choose 'Choose WSDL to implement...'
    - And then there is still the well-known Tools menu item 'Web services Contract-First...'
• Can add an external WSDL to the project and generate code based on it.
    Just enter the URI of the WSDL into the textbox
    - via HTTP (be suprised what happens when entering something like '.asmx?wsdl' ...)
    - via file system
• Can mark classes as [Serializable]
• Can generate collection-based members instead of arrays
• Can enable automatic validation of incoming SOAP messages on Web service side (by using a custom SoapExtension)
• Saves configuraton settings
• Some few bug fixes

Let me know ...