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Doing WCF Development on Vista Using Orcas Beta 2
I’ve been doing some WCF development on Vista using Orcas Beta 2 for a project I’m starting. I ran into a couple of issues with this configuration. I wanted to expose a service on an HTTP endpoint, but Vista doesn’t allow this. To enable it you have to add a rule to the HTTP namespace in HTTP.sys in the kernel. Nicholas Allen has a post on what and how to do it.
Second you can run into problems with svcutil.exe because of signing issues. Guy Berstein has the details.
Btw. you can start the WCF Test Client that is used by Visual studio by executing WcfTestClient.exe in a VS Command Prompt.
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6 Responses to 'Doing WCF Development on Vista Using Orcas Beta 2'
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on September 28th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
There is nothing called Orcas Beta 2. There was something called Orcas Beta 1 and now there is Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 – but no Orcas Beta 2
on September 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Hmm, I guess I stand corrected
Smart ass
on November 13th, 2007 at 10:10 am
You guys play nice, if Microsoft can’t figure it out themselves why should Kristian have a chance
From: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3B72271C-E996-4989-898D-72D684966CE6&displaylang=en
“Click the Download button on this page to download all parts of the Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Beta 2″
So now who’s the smartass
on November 13th, 2007 at 10:12 am
You guys play nice now, if Microsoft can’t figure it themselves how do you expect Kristian to keep up
From: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3B72271C-E996-4989-898D-72D684966CE6&displaylang=en
“Click the Download button on this page to download all parts of the Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Beta 2″
on November 15th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
You tell ‘em Jakob
on November 16th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Smartass…