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POCoerce types in different namespaces with Identical layout in C#
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    copied!<p>I've started writing an interface for FedEx's webservice APIs. They have 3 different APIs that I'm interested in; Rate, Ship, and Track. I am generating the service proxies with SvcUtil.exe.</p> <p>The different service endpoints are each specified by FedEx in their own WSDL files. Each service endpoint has it's own xml namespace (e.g. <a href="http://fedex.com/ws/rate/v5" rel="noreferrer">http://fedex.com/ws/rate/v5</a> and <a href="http://fedex.com/ws/ship/v5" rel="noreferrer">http://fedex.com/ws/ship/v5</a>)</p> <p>The service endpoints do use quite a few identical types such as Address, Measurements, Weight, AuthenticationDetail, ClientDetail, etc...</p> <p>And here is where the problem lies, I can provide all the WSDL files at the same time to SvcUtil.exe and normally it would coalesce any identical types into a single shared type, but since each of FedEx's services are in their own namespace, and they redeclare these types in each WSDL file under that namespace what I end up with instead is an Address, Address1, and Address2 one for each namespace.</p> <p>To solve that issue, what I do now is to run each WSDL through svcutil separately and put them each in their own .NET namespace (e.g. FedEx.Rate, FedEx.Ship, FedEx.Track). The problem with this is that now I have a distinct address type in each namespace (Fedex.Rate.Address, FedEx.Ship.Address).</p> <p>This makes it difficult to generalize the code used between the services like a GetAuthenticationDetail() factory method so I don't have to repeat that code in every place I use the different services.</p> <p>Is there any way in C# to Coerce FedEx.Rate.Address to FedEx.Ship.Address?</p>
 

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