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Text Template Transformation Toolkit


This article provides an overview of Text Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) and includes links to additional articles about T4 and ready-to-use templates.

DebugExe command-line switch in Visual Studio


Visual Studio (devenv.exe) has a useful command line switch - DebugExe. It allows you to load and start debugging any executable using its file name. It is most useful when debugging startup problems in windows services, when you cannot simply attach debugger to an already running service process. You can find information on how to […]

Debugging WCF services using non-admin account on Windows XP SP2


If you are using a non-admin account on your computer to develop WCF services, you may have run into a problem trying to debug HTTP services locally. Using HTTP endpoints requires the user account to have a special permission to “reserve” a namespace (i.e. a URL). If account doesn’t have the permission, WCF service will […]

Fiddler by Eric Lawrence


Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting […]