Friday, October 14, 2011

WCF Important Tips


To Test WCF service  
 
 wcftestclient.exe [C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE] 

To Configure WCF

Configuration Editor Tool (SvcConfigEditor.exe) [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\SvcConfigEditor.exe ]


To Trace WCF Request in server inside <configuration> tag in web.config

 Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe) [ <Installation_Drive>\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin ] or [C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin]
  or
open visual studio (web application or web site) => Tools => WCF service configuration editor

To Trace and save service request in server

 <system.diagnostics>
    <sources>
      <source name="System.ServiceModel"
              switchValue="Verbose,Information, ActivityTracing,Critical,Error,Warning"
              propagateActivity="true">
        <listeners>
          <add name="traceListener"
              type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener"
              initializeData= "c:\log\Traces.svclog" />
        </listeners>
      </source>
    </sources>
  </system.diagnostics>

To increase incoming message size in server using web.config



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