Is there a way in Visual Studio 2012 to see an error log of the Update Service Reference operation

Question

I've had a lot of issues with updating my service reference to my WCF service. I've had issues with third-party dll's not serializing correctly, and also issues with too many methods in the service. I figure these out by trial and error or looking for similar posts.

It would be helpful if there was an error log to look at. Does anyone know of a log or error log that visual studio writes out for this process?

Answer 1

Visual Studio calls SVCUTIL.exe to do the majority of the work, IIRC. If you want to see a more verbose output of the process, use SVCUTIL yourself manually.

Answer 2

You can start VS with log parameter:

Devenv.exe /log <path to log dir>