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Project Packager Add-In for Visual Studio 2010 by David Sackstein

This Add-In for Visual Studio 2010 will package up your solution (actually, any folder you choose) into a zip file excluding any files with extensions you specify and any folders whose names you specify.I cant upload msi files to this blog, so in order to install you will need to build the project. I packaged up the Add-In solution using the Add-In itself and uploaded it here . Download the solution, open with Visual Studio 2010 and Build All. Right click the setup project and select Install. Close...

Instrumentation Tip for ASMX Web Services by David Sackstein

This post describes a simple way to trace all method invocations on an ASMX Web Service. The source code for the demo can be downloaded here . Problem I am currently adding some features to a customer’s application that exposes its core functionality as an ASMX Web Service. About every mistake in the book was made in the design of this product, so I was having a rough time understanding the API of the service, never mind the implementation. For a start, the methods are not strongly typed, mostly...