Configuring Services with the Configuration Editor
WCF services enable high-level customizations over their configuration. This task can be complex if you consider that there are hundreds of options that you should translate into Xml markup. Fortunately the .NET Framework offers a graphical tool called WCF Service Configuration Editor that you can also launch from the Tools menu in Visual Studio. In this section you see how this tool can be used for enabling tracing for WCF services. Tracing is useful because it enables recording into log file (with .svclog extension) events occurring during the WCF service running time. When launched, open the Web.config file for your service. When ready click the Diagnostics folder on the left and then click ...
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