This library is a message tracing tool for web-services and clients built with WCF. Acting as custom message encoder it captures raw XML SOAP data as plain HTTP body.

• You get exact content of each request and response
• Including any malformed requests and soap faults
• It's applicable for both parties: web-services and clients
• Easy start, no code modification needed - just put dll and adjust config file
• Default handler just saves each request and response as a separate file
• But you can implement any custom handler instead

• As NuGet package in Visual Studio project (Tools -> NuGet -> Console / Manager -> Choose project). How to adjust config file.

Install-Package WcfSoapLogger

• Manually (for system administators)

The repository contains usage examples covering different scenarios. To clone run this command or download as zip file.

git clone https://github.com/capslocky/WcfSoapLogger.git

You can find examples here.

• IDispatchMessageInspector (IClientMessageInspector) Link 1 Link 2
  can't see malformed requests (HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request specifically)
  can't see original content

• SvcTraceViewer.exe (<system.diagnostics>) Link 1 Link 2
  external utility hard in use
  no custom handling possible

• Fiddler Link 1 Link 2
  external proxy application

If you find this project useful you are welcome to make it better! Feel free to contact me if you have any ideas, questions or concerns. Also see issues.