The same steps work in Visual Studio 2012
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.)
3. In the…
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