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Just out of interest, what can WCFStorm do over the built-in wcftestclient? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552364.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
by junto 14y ago
Just out of interest, what can WCFStorm do over the built-in wcftestclient?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552364.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb552364.aspx
The WCFStorm.Rest client is more interesting. At the moment I'm manually composing requests using Fiddler2 for localhost testing, or http://apigee.com http://apigee.com for public facing services. A dedicated REST client sounds pretty cool.
One thing I'd purchase is an extension to WCF that builds a developers API documentation and test website around the WCF contracts: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7346522/auto-generate-an-api-explorer-for-wcf-services http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7346522/auto-generate-an-...
ASP.NET WebAPI has an APIExplorer interface exposed to allow you build your own, but nothing out of the box: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yaohuang1/archive/2012/05/21/asp-net-web-api-generating-a-web-api-help-page-using-apiexplorer.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yaohuang1/archive/2012/05/21/asp-net...
One alternative is using the Chrome PostMan extension to craft REST requests and here is an example of the APIExplorer interface being used to expose PostMan PostCollections, which I thought was a great idea: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yaohuang1/archive/2012/06/15/using-apiexplorer-to-export-api-information-to-postman-a-chrome-extension-for-testing-web-apis.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yaohuang1/archive/2012/06/15/using-a...
- namigop 14y agoThank you for the feedback and for the links. The one about building documentation around WCF contracts is very interesting. Regarding WCFStorm, it has several features that are not in the built-in WCFTestClient such as (1) Save requests and responses and organize it into a "project", (2) Performance testing, (3) An object editor similar to WCFTestClient but with support for more types and others. http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more.aspx http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more.aspx Regarding WCFStorm.Rest, it does have similarities with POSTMan (and other clients). I'm not very familiar with POSTMan but the list of features for WCFSTorm.Rest is here http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx http://www.wcfstorm.com/wcf/learn-more-rest.aspx
- junto 14y agoWe have several clients for whom we are building APIs using WCF. We would buy a plug-and-play WCF extension that could provide a customisable developer's playground to test the API. I will try your WCFStorm trial product when I pick up the next WCF development project. Thanks for all the information.