How to log incoming and outgoing XML from WCF requests

Question

I have a basic WCF hosted in a console app, and a basic console WCF client. How do you look at the requests sent between the two apps (over localhost)?

Should I use something like 'Wireshark' or would it be possible to log out the incoming and outgoing response objects in visual Studio?

I'm already creating an log.svclog file by the system.diagnostics directive in the App.config file, but can't find the actual request and response xml:

<diagnostics>
  <messageLogging logEntireMessage="true" logMalformedMessages="true" logMessagesAtServiceLevel="true" logMessagesAtTransportLevel="true" />
</diagnostics>

<system.diagnostics>
  <sources>
    <source name="System.ServiceModel" switchValue="Information, ActivityTracing" propagateActivity="true">
      <listeners>
        <add name="traceListener" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData="C:\log\log.svclog" />
      </listeners>
    </source>
  </sources>
</system.diagnostics>

Which I got from Stack Overflow (I can't remember where)

Answer 1

You need to configure message logging, which is separate from just WCF tracing, which is what you have configured above. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730064(v=vs.110).aspx.