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 :)

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...

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.

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

Choose Tools --> Edit WCF Service Configuration Editor

1) Open Visual Studio command prompt & type SvcConfigEditor

OR

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

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