Can not Instantiate Custom Salesforce Objects - c#

I was able to download and include both the partner and enterprise WSDLs into my VS .NET 2010 project. In the Web References folder, all that appears is a Reference.map file, which, when I expand, exposes a few other .datasource files but no class stubs.
After including a reference to both APIs, I can not create an instance of my Salesforce classes (both native [such as Account] and custom). I need to do this for an upsert().
Is there something I am missing? Please help.

You don't typically need both the Partner and the Enterprise WSDL in the same project.
The Enterprise WSDL will be tailored to the schema of the generating Org and will have classes for Account, Contact etc and include properties for custom fields.
The Partner WSDL is designed to work with any Org, so it doesn't have specific classes. Instead you use a generic sObject and access XML Elements for the field values.

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You are probably using the Enterprise WSDL, which contains stubs for all objects. If you expect objects to change (as you do here), then you should instead use the Partner WSDL. The Partner WSDL does not contain stubs for objects; instead, the partner WSDL file defines a single, generic object (sObject) that represents all of the objects.
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