Windows Azure WCF Add Service Reference Patch and Windows 7

For those of you that watched my Tips & Tricks session at PDC or followed along on my blog post, you'll recall that I mentioned the following:

In general, WCF works correctly on Windows Azure.  There is a problem using "add service reference" or svcutil but we have a patch to workaround the problem.  The patch is installed in the cloud, and more information about this is here: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfazure/Wiki/View.aspx?title=KnownIssues (note that a web.config change is also required)

One of the things this prompted a lot of folks to ask is "Where is the Windows 7 version of this patch?"

Well, I'm happy to announce that we have released this QFE for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB977420

I also recommend that if you are using WCF on Windows Azure, you spend time browsing the content on https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wcfazure.

You may also be interested in the REST service templates the WCF team has made available on the Visual Studio Gallery: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/842a05c3-4cc8-49d3-837f-5ec7e6b17e80 (this is the .NET 3.5 C# template, there are also .NET 3.5 VB and .NET 4 C# and VB templates)

Note that the REST templates aren't currently directly supported as a Windows Azure Role in the New Project Dialog, but you can easily use that template in a Windows Azure Cloud Service by following the "Using an Existing Project" section of this post.