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Debugging Remote Applications

In most cases, the hard part about debugging remote applications is that you don't know for sure what messages are being passed between remote locations. It would be nice if you could determine that a message was received and it was the proper format or that it was sent in a format that was expected. For this level of debugging, you need a tool that is inserted into the message stream. Microsoft provides a tool called MSSoapT, or the Microsoft SOAP trace utility, that does just that. This tool is available as part of the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit. MSSoapT can be inserted into part of the message stream, and it automatically forwards the messages that it receives. For example, assume that your application connects to ...