visual studio 2010 - How to look at the actual SOAP request/response in C#

Question

I have added a wsdl file in my project as a service reference. The application sends SOAP messages to a particular device which then sends the response in SOAP format.

Is there a way to look at the actual SOAP message that is wrapped in XML? Having to turn on wireshark to look at the SOAP messages gets tedious.

Answer 1

You can use the SVCTraceViewer to trace what are the messages that are being sent to and fro for each service call. You just have to set up the config and WCF builds the log files with the .svclog extension.

More details on this tool and its associated configuration is here. This does not require any 3rd party tool or network inspectors to be run etc... This is out of the box from Microsoft.