This morning we published the final release of the Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio and WCF RIA Services. In April, when Silverlight 4 was released, the tools were still in “RC” status. Today, they are no longer and are officially released. There is no new update to Silverlight itself, but these tools are the final bits of this version.
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To look decoded stream, click WCF Silverlight tab. Below are raw and encode Polling Duplex messages as seen in fiddler The reason this inspector is called WCF Silverlight is because it not only understand.Net Framing used in Polling Duplex, it also understand raw binary Xml used by WCF RIA services and binary SOAP messages. WCF binary inspector – a plugin for fiddler adds a WCF tab, allows you to decode your binary encoded message. Another option for faster performance is to use TCP ports (faster, but limited ports). WCF Duplex Service – Have server push data to your client app. Supported by HTTP Duplex Polling with multiple messages per poll. To see whether the message is in XML format, just switch to the XML tab in the inspectors window in Fiddler Anonymous https. Shaihan, Have you checked that the message is actually encoded in WCF Binary form? This is the kind of stack trace you get when looking at a message.
EAS Inspector for Fiddler will provide users with a sample application to showcase the process of decoding Exchange Server ActiveSync (EAS) WBXML into XML within a Fiddler Inspector environment.
Get the Tools
If you have a clean machine you can get everything you need using the Web Platform Installer by clicking on the link at the Silverlight community site. This will install Silverlight Tools, Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, Silverlight Toolkit and the RIA Services Toolkit in one step for you.
NOTE: If you have a previous version of the RIA Services Toolkit installed you MUST uninstall that prior to installing any new version.
Optionally you can grab the direct Silverlight 4 Tools installer here. This will install the tools and WCF RIA Services for you and can be installed on top of any existing RC installation as it will uninstall previous tools and WCF RIA Services for you.
Watch some info about the tools and RIA Services release:
- Silverlight TV: Silverlight Tools Released
- Silverlight TV: WCF RIA Services 1.0!
New Themes Released
Today we also are making available the final version of the 3 new application themes we developed. These include the Accent Color, Windows 7 and Cosmopolitan themes. The download contains Visual Studio 2010 template installers, Blend 4 compatible templates as well as the raw resource dictionary assets and sample projects. Final versions for the RIA Services business application template will be coming as we identified some last minute changes we need to make. You can, of course, use the raw assets and tweak them into your existing applications as needed.
NOTE: A word on ‘Cosmopolitan’ name change. Many have asked if Metro is being renamed. The term ‘Cosmopolitan’ refers only to the name given to this application template and is arbitrary. Metro is the code name for the design language found in Windows Phone 7 and other applications. It is not a literal theme name or anything else and is a term referred to internally. This template simply was renamed to Cosmopolitan.
You can download the themes here: Silverlight 4 Application Themes. There is a README_FIRST file explaining the different files.
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Thanks for your patience as we finalized the release of the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio and these accompanying templates.
At work, I had to look into request/response compression in WCF with .NET 3.5. In order to be sure whether what I’m doing had had the desired effect, I had to force Fiddler to capture the client-server SOAP traffic. So now I’ll try to summarize what I learned.
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The process consists of four steps:
- Hosting the web service
- Setting up Fiddler reverse proxy
- Modifying the WS’ WSDL file
- Setting up the client
- Calling the service via Fiddler’s proxy
First, you need to host your service somewhere. In my example, I used the IIS 7.5 and set it to listen locally at port 555.
Then you have to set up the reverse proxy, which gathers requests from various sources (servers) and forwards them to its client (in this case, your service). In this scenario, this is useful because you might have difficulties routing the communication between your testing client (be it the default WCF Test Client, SoapUI, a smartphone or what have you) and the service.
To set it up in Fiddler, you first have to go to Tools | Fiddler options | Connections. Set the proxy port to the desired value; in my case, 8888.
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Then you have to forward the traffic, coming to the proxy, to the WCF service in question. Go to Rules | Custom Rules. In the OnBeforeRequest method, add the redirecting.
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You’re almost ready to go. Now the only remaining obstacle is the definition (WSDL) file your service generates. The .svc automatically generates a WSDL that contains the endpoint address in a few places; the local address is automatically inserted. If you tried to create a reference using this WSDL, your WCF Test Client would go directly to the service instead of going through the proxy. So copy the WSDL file, replace all original endpoints with your proxy (in this case, localhost:8888) and save it; then give it to the Test Client to create the reference from.
And that’s it, you’re set. You can call the service and any all communication will be logged by Fiddler and forwarded to your service hosted on the IIS.