Why is my Edit WCF Configuration option missing?

I created WCF RIA services. It added app.confi开发者_Go百科g by default. But there is no option of Edit WCF Configuration that appears when you create simple WCF services. What am i missing? How do i get that GUI tool? Do i have to write all that xml and remember for the next time when i use it?

Thanks in advance :)

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This is a known bug - at times, you have to select it from the Tools menu once and close it again right away, before it becomes available as a right-click context-menu option on your app.config file.

I would have hoped this would have been fixed in Visual Studio 2010 - but it's still there...

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There should be a link in the main Tools menu to the editor, or alternatively run it externally and open your app.config from it's menu.

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1. Open Visual Studio
2. Go to tools
3. Click on Edit WCF Service Configuration

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Choose Tools --> Edit WCF Service Configuration Editor

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1) Open Visual Studio command prompt & type SvcConfigEditor

OR

2)Navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\SvcConfigEditor.exe

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In VS 2022, I could not locate a way to Edit Wcf configuration. Maybe I need to install more components of VS 2022 ? Anyways, I used Tools->External Tools menu item in VS 2022 to define a way to open the Wcf configuration myself.

Then hit start menu and search for 'cmd' or 'Developer command prompt' and choose the version suitable for you (e.g. 2022). Now enter :

svcconfigeditor

This opens a new window with svcconfigeditor and must succeed, or else you do not have installed Svc config editor anyways.. The tool which 'Edit wcf configuration' will open.

Next type this command :

where svcconfigeditor

This should show you the path to the executable on your system.

Locating svcconfigeditor executable on your Windows system

Go back again to Tools->Exernal Tools and hit 'Add' button

Give these values (example, last two values must be set):

Title: 'Edit Wcf configuration' Command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.8 Tools\SvcConfigEditor.exe Arguments: $(ItemFileName)$(ItemExt) Initial dir: $(ItemDir)

External Tools - creating a edit wcf configuration tool window Now - switch back to Solution explorer with the web.config file containing your web.config file. Select the web.config file and choose : Tools=>Edit Wcf configuration

Editing wcf configuration

Please note that I suspect Edit WCF configuration tools are better with older VS versions as WCF is getting replaced with