WCF Test Client in Visual Studio 11: Improved error dialogs

by JoshGillespie March 02 2012 12:00

I spent some time last night playing around with Visual Studio’s Dev 11 release.  I plan to write more about it later, but this made me happy and I wanted to share it.

If you’ve spent much time using the WCF Test Client, you know the error message dialog is pretty much unreadable.  It dumps the HTML returned into a text area.  You have to scroll and sift through CSS declarations to find the message.

Visual Studio 2010 WcfTestClient.exe Error Dialog

In Dev 11, this has been given some TLC.

It still has this familiar look…Visual Studio 11 WcfTestClient.exe Error dialog

But is also adds an improved, wrapped view

Visual Studio 11 WcfTestClient.exe Error dialog, wrapped

and an awesome HTML view…

Visual Studio 11 WcfTestClient.exe Error Dialog, HTML view

Sometimes it is the little things.

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