Monday, January 25, 2010

Web service / WCF testing tool

wcftestclient is a simple tool for manual testing of web and WCF services. It is installed with Visual Studio.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Broken Silverlight breakpoints

When debugging a Silverlight application in Visual Studio, sometimes breakpoints will not be set due to a symbol load error. This appears to be caused by the xap file being cached. In my case, the following PowerShell command fixed the problem:

dir -fo -r "~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" -inc *.xap | % {del $_}