So using (the old Microsoft Patterns and Practices) "Web Service Software Factory 2010", I am able to create a new service contract diagram from scratch. i.e.
That is then able to be used to generate code....
I however, want to come from the other end and generate a Service Contract diagram from existing services, contracts/interfaces, methods/operations, messages, faults etc.
Is this possible? What is the best tool to do this?
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How badly do you want this feature? If you only need an initial reverse-engineering step, then you could extend the WSSF yourself. I have done something like this to permit the creation of the data contract model from existing classes. It wasn't easy, but in my case, it was worth it.
Readers unfamiliar with WSSF may think it's a packaged solution. It's not. It's built on a platform that is extremely extensible, using the Guidance Automation Toolkit from Microsoft Patterns & Practices, three Domain Specific Languages, code generation through T4 templates, etc. Many extensions can be created simply in XML.
This feature would require perhaps five pages of code.
No. It's not supported and there are no plans to support it.
http://servicefactory.codeplex.com/workitem/5271