Enable Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 in Visual Studio 2008, 2010 and 2012

The same steps work in Visual Studio 2012

Diganta Kumar's avatarDiganta Kumar's Blog

Web Service Enhancements 3 (WSE 3) is not officially supported since Visual Studio 2008. The reason is that Microsoft wants you to migrate your code to WCF. See below to enable Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 in VS2012, VS2010 and VS2008.

1. Download and install Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 for Microsoft .NET. Make sure you have all the files after installing WSE v3.0. In Window 7 the location is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft WSE\v3.0\Tools”. Note: Close Visual Studio before installing.

2. Go to the folder %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns (notice that “Application Data” is hardcoded, which shouldn’t because Windows XP localizes that folder). If the folder is not there close Visual Studio and create the folder as show below.

Examples:
– Windows XP: “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns”
– Windows Vista / Windows 7: “C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns”. ( This is a hidden folder. Copy paste the UNC path to Windows Explorer.)

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10 things I hate about Git

Exactly the same emotions

steveko's avatarSteve Bennett blogs

Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things with branches, and rewriting history. What a pity that it’s so hard to learn, has such an unpleasant command line interface, and treats its users with such utter contempt.

1. Complex information model

The information model is complicated – and you need to know all of it. As a point of reference, consider Subversion: you have files, a working directory, a repository, versions, branches, and tags. That’s pretty much everything you need to know. In fact, branches are tags, and files you already know about, so you really need to learn three new things. Versions are linear, with the odd merge. Now Git: you have files, a working tree, an index, a local repository, a remote repository, remotes…

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