After some research into a Service Reference problem I was having with Silverlight I came to find out (but not officially) that VS2008 DOES NOT use SvcUtil under the hood to get its service reference. It uses its own internal implementation of a proxy generation tool. I'll have to confirm this conclusion with some authority/book/etc, but if this is the case, I made a statement in Dime Cast 67 (WCF Rest Part 1) that informed viewers that VS2008 uses SVCUtil under the hood.

I'll see what I can find out and post it back here when I confirm my thoughts.

I recently created a small 10 minute recording on how to create a WCF RESTful service. This screen cast has been published on Dime Casts .NET here. This is part 1 of the series in which I go into how to create a WebGet based WCF RESTful service. This screen cast is a video extension of the post I wrote here.  At a high level, this screen cast is an introduction to the RESTful capabilities of WCF. In another future (yet to be recorded) Dime Cast I will go into how to utilize WebInvoke attribute to perform POST operations against the REST web service.

Click here to watch, or click on the image below.