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POWhat tool would you choose for generating multiple C# files for WCF contract versioning?
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copied!<p>I have some breaking changes to WCF contracts and I want to be able to support two versions of the contracts from within the same website.</p> <pre><code> somewhere.com.catalog.v1 class A class B... somewhere.com.catalog.v2 class A class B </code></pre> <p>I would like to have a utility program to copy the files from v1, into v2 and change all the namespace references so I don't have to do a manual copy and find & replace.</p> <ol> <li>T4 template - need to parameterize this. I found a <a href="http://customtemplating.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow">custom templating</a> project on codeplex.</li> <li>PowerShell script. Found <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/aaronlerch/archive/2008/01/04/refactoring-c-with-powershell.aspx" rel="nofollow">Aaron Lerch's blog</a> which seems to be close to what I wanted, but I have the worst problems with PowerShell and got a compile error. I tried downloading some PowerShell extensions for Visual Studio 2010 to get auto-complete but ran into extension conflicts.</li> <li>Razor template. From what I read it seems to be targeted to single file generation.</li> <li>MSBuild task using the TextTransform utility.</li> <li>Just create a command line C# program that takes in the input folder, output folder and new namespace.</li> <li>Other <strong><em>_</em>__<em>_</em>__<em>_</em></strong></li> </ol> <p>Just having trouble choosing the best tool for the job and wanting to learn something new that can be applied in other situations. </p>

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