dotnet-svcutil VB support and add test.

[imcarolwang]

Linked issue: #4381.

[InteXX]

I missed the 1-year anniversary for this PR, but only by a few days.

We're still hoping for its adoption.

[InteXX]

@imcarolwang

Hi Carol, what's the status with this? Is there still a possibility that it might make it into production?

[DualBrain]

+1

[skurth]

+1

[InteXX]

@HongGit

Could you tell us more about the DO NOT MERGE label that you added?

What does that signal regarding the intent for this PR?

[geneb]

This needs to happen. :)

[InteXX]

@KathleenDollard

Hi Kathleen, do you have any visibility into this?

[InteXX]

@skurth

Thank you for your participation in this. It's an important feature.

What's next? Is there a way to follow its progress up the pipeline?

[skurth]

@InteXX Sorry, I just tried something, I'm not from Microsoft.
I also hope there is finally a reaction from them...

[InteXX]

@skurth

Sorry, I just tried something, I'm not from Microsoft

Oh, OK.

[InteXX]

@skurth

I also hope there is finally a reaction from them

Also, in case you haven't seen it, I've submitted this as a Visual Studio feature request (although oddly things seem to be progressing slowly over there as well).

You can follow it and vote on it if you like here.

[InteXX]

@imcarolwang

Carol, it'd be nice to hear from you regarding your pull request.

Is there a way we can get this to the attention of the people who can make it happen?

[skurth]

@skurth

I also hope there is finally a reaction from them

Also, in case you haven't seen it, I've submitted this as a Visual Studio feature request (although oddly things seem to be progressing slowly over there as well).

You can follow it and vote on it if you like here.

Thank you, I have already done it some days ago.

Hi @mconnew
Maybe you can help us here. Reference: #4381
You wrote:

There are two possible solutions for you, the hard one and the easy one. The hard one is to contribute the code to the dotnet-svcutil utility that the connected services tool is based on (it's in this repo now) to support those other languages. If on the other hand you can't spare several months of your life to this noble cause, you could generate your WCF client into a library project of it's own and then reference that project from your F# or VB applications.

There has been a PR open for two years to generate WCF client code in VB, so the work already appears to be done. Is it possible to merge this PR?

[InteXX]

@skurth

Thank you, I have already done it some days ago.

Aha. Yes, I saw that one. Well stated. I remember being impressed.