Windows Communication Foundation Tools for ITPros

Did you know we have time saving, ITPro tools for WCF? They ship via the Windows SDK or Visual Studio 2008. From what I hear, these aren't your regular sample grade SDK utilities from Microsoft - they have full product level support from Microsoft. Currently, the only known dependency is having .NET installed and the product team seems to smile when you install the tools via the SDK or VS on a dev machine and copy the tools to other machines where they are needed. Nice!

So what are these tools?

Configuration Editor Tool (SvcConfigEditor.exe)
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Configuration Editor (SvcConfigEditor.exe) allows administrators and developers to create and modify configuration settings for WCF services using a graphical user interface. With this tool, you can manage settings for WCF bindings, behaviors, services, and diagnostics without having to directly edit XML configuration files. More here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms732009.aspx

Service Trace Viewer Tool (SvcTraceViewer.exe)

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Trace Viewer Tool helps you analyze diagnostic traces that are generated by WCF. Service Trace Viewer provides a way to easily merge, view, and filter trace messages in the log so that you can diagnose, repair, and verify WCF service issues. More here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms732023.aspx