When I add a service reference this generates classes for the service that I can use to call the service.
I'm assuming that VS uses the WSDL returned from the hosted service to generate the classes I need. I don't think the physical wsdl is stored in my client application after I add the service reference because the physical wsdl is only needed to generate the classes. Is this correct?
Also, is it correct to say that the host service generates wsdl only as requested by client applications? i.e. VS doesn't generate wsdl when compiling the service or in any other scenario except when requested by a client application? Are you familiar with the particular process that accepts the wsdl request, generates the wsdl and returns it?