Author: Visual Web Developer Team Blog | Posted on: 4/13/2009 11:00:00 AM | Views : 1121

Wcftestclient can be used to debug a WCF service. Here are two ways to enable wcftestclient debugging in Visual Studio VS2008 SP1 web applications. Tradition way: In Web application project property page, web tab, one can specify start external program and command line argument for IIS based WCF: 1. Check Use Local IIS Web server and create a virtual directory on the local IIS (you?ve to enable WCF on .net3.0 with IIS7) 2. Specify start external program: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\WcfTestClient.exe 3. Specify command line argument: http://localhost/WcfService7/Service1.svc The problem with this approach is that if the project contains several wcf service or some other web page, ctrl-F5, F5 will still start the svc...(read more) ...

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