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Hamish
Feb 19th, 2009, 08:29 AM
I've started playing around with WCF, but I'm finding it hard work with only the Express editions to work with. Being absolutely new to WCF and having only instruction videos made in VS Pro to learn from doesn't help.
Especially the self-host scenario is very difficult to build in the Express editions, and that's the one I'm most interested in, as I think I will be building mostly P2P apps, not server apps.

So for starters: Does anyone know how to start the Service Configuration Editor manually? It doesn't show up when I right-click my config file....

Hamish
Feb 19th, 2009, 09:29 AM
OK, found it. SvcConfigEditor.exe
I am building my WCF Service dll in Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, since that has the WCF Service Application template. But it's still a hassle.

mendhak
Feb 19th, 2009, 10:00 AM
I'm not entirely sure if this applies to you but the service configuration editor doesn't show up by default when you right click a config file. You have to go to Tools > WCF Service Configuration Editor. After it opens up, close it. Then right click on the config file. Perhaps something similar in the express editions...

Hamish
Feb 19th, 2009, 10:16 AM
Doesn't work in VWD 2008, it's not on the Tools menu. I've added as an external tool though, so now I can just select the file and open it from there, so that's better.