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Why would the tab "WCF Options" not be in Visual Studio 2008 project properties?

Answer 1

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Did you upgrade from visual studio 2008 beta? I would remove it completely and reinstall.

Can you try the following:

Close all VS instances and open a command prompt and run
"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\vsdiag_regwcf.exe" -s

If it doesn't state 'Registered", run:
"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\vsdiag_regwcf.exe" -i

Open your project and check for the missing tab.

Regards, Michel

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-06 09:45:38

I upgraded from Visual Studio 2005, not from 2008beta. When I run the first command, it says "Registered...C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\config\machine.config" so it seems to be registered. I ran the second command as well, and checked, but the WCF-Options tab is still not there.

Edward Tanguay 2009-11-06 10:15:32

Hmm ok. Maybe and if you reset your development settings?Tools->Import and Export Settings, Reset Settings. Close VS, Open VS.

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-06 10:55:53

I reset settings, restarted Visual Studio, but it still doesn't show a WCF-Options tag.

Edward Tanguay 2009-11-06 12:54:27

Answer 2

+1 A:

If you create a new WCF service library project and inspect its .csproj, is there a section like below?

  <ProjectExtensions>
    <VisualStudio>
      <FlavorProperties GUID="{3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699}">
        <WcfProjectProperties>
          <AutoStart>True</AutoStart>
        </WcfProjectProperties>
      </FlavorProperties>
    </VisualStudio>
  </ProjectExtensions>

If not, what happens when you add it yourself?

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-06 11:21:59

interesting: no, I don't have that XML block when I created a new WCF service library project, I added the above block right under the <Project...> tag in my .csproj but it didn't show me the tag in VisualStudio project properties. I tried this on one of the machines that DOES have the tag and it DOES have that XML block.

Edward Tanguay 2009-11-06 12:48:35

I don't have a Vista machine here with Visual Studio 2008 so I can't verify whether it's an installation problem or a Vista problem. Do you have access to a second Vista machine?Did your Visual Studio 2005 installation on Vista have the WCF Extensions installed?

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-06 13:30:54

Update: on my home Vista box, I don't have the tab either!And it's a fresh VS2008 install, no VS2005 was ever on this machine..

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-06 16:33:31

@Michel are you sure you have VS2008 SP1? The WCF-Options apparently comes with SP1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee391658.aspx

Edward Tanguay 2009-11-09 08:37:17

Will check that tonight!

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-09 09:46:38

MS Visual Studio 2008 version 9.0.21022.8 RTM .Net Framework 3.5 SP1(RTM because that's the version I got with the webdeveloper dvd that comes with Microsoft Action Pack)

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-09 21:32:51

I just deinstalled VS2008, VS2005, Visual Web Developer Express, and Blend (in case there were some conflicts), then reinstalled VS2005, and the VS2008 update, after a fresh install it says my Visual Studio is "Version 9.0.30729.1 SP" which is what it says on the other XP machines which have the WCF Options. Strange: under project templates it only has three Silverlight project templates and nothing else (no WPF, no WCF, no Console application, etc.)

Edward Tanguay 2009-11-10 08:29:08

then I installed Windows SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 which now has all the project templates including WCF, and when I create a WCF project it indeed does have the WCF-Options tab! So, the answer to this question seems to be: deinstall / reinstall. Thanks for your help, Michel!

Edward Tanguay 2009-11-10 09:18:46

You're welcome.

Michel van Engelen 2009-11-10 09:48:30

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