I stumbled upon an excellent utility for WCF Testing that comes with Visual Studio 2008 - WCFTestClient. The tool is an simple way to test WCF clients HTTP and TCP bindings. Some things are not supported, however, for basic WCF Testing, this definitely beats the old ASMX test page. Note: Also check out the WCFSvcHost utility from Visual Studio to host an arbitrary WCF Service. Technorati Tags: Debugging, Development, Microsoft Office, Tips, Tools, WCF, Visual Studio Cross Posted from http://blog.tfanshteyn.com/...

One of the requests that I've received from other developers is the ability to use SCSF for developing a module without including the shell in the solution. We develop a large number of modules independently in different groups and having the shell be a part of every module was getting to be a problem. The only issue that I was getting with getting this to work was that SCSF guidance package would fail in ViewTemplateCS when I would right click on a folder and tried to add a new view to the project....

I've encountered a problem trying fix the WCF / WPF Visual Studio 2005 Integration components after I've installed Visual Studio 2008. Installing a VS 2008 will install .NET 3.0 SP1 and remove the installation of .NET 3.0. When trying to install the WCF / WPF Extension, installation display's a message Setup has detected that a prerequisite is missing. To use Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP you must have the .NET Framework 3.0 runtime installed....

I had to write a custom download component to download modules for a ClickOnce deployed application. The actual downloading is simple, the tricky part was creating the manifest and make sure that I only download files that are required. I am using an GeneraApplicationManifest MSBuild task to generate an application manifest. The documentation is very easy to follow. The generated manifest will include a Hash value. It is fairly simple to compute the same hash value manually and be able to validate...

I am using a great source control product Subversion. More information is available on http://subversion.tigris.org A great future of subversion is an ability to run a server script before the check-in is committed . The script has the ability to rollback the check-in. We are using this functionality to enforce comments for every check-in. To create a script, place any executable file into a hooks folder in the repository. You can start with a ... Read full article Technorati Tags: Development,Subversion,Tips...