Storm in a teacup
Through 2001 - 2004 timeframe, I used the Web Service Studio 1.0 and 2.0 from gotdotnet.com to great effect. It was the magic tool I needed to inspect/debug soap packets/web services without having to sniff network packets. I could hit breakpoints at will. It was like a dream come true.
While I was working on some middle tier SOAP implementation earlier this year, I went looking for the Web Service Studio 2.0. I could not find it. The gotdotnet.com does not exist anymore. Microsoft formalised its content and made it part of the MSDN! This little tool however, fell through the gaps and seized to exist.
Recently however, I chanced upon Storm. Storm meets the same end. It is an open source project. You can download the Storm here. Storm does what Web Service Studio used to do, except the screens are much more pleasant and configurable.
However, to my astonishment, at the time of writing this post, Web Service Studio has been republished on MSDN. So if you are missing it like did, you can download it here.
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