Visual-studio – Why would the tab “WCF Options” not be in Visual Studio 2008 project properties

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On one machine with VS2008 installed, when I right-click on a WCF service library project and choose properties, I don't have the "WCF Options" tab but on three other computers the tab is there. The project is all the same one, from TFS.

The only difference is that the one that doesn't have the tab is Vista and the others are all XP.

All machines have VS2008 SP1 and I reinstalled SP1 on the Vista machine but no difference.

Could this be a rights problem at some level, or what else could be causing the VS2008 not to have this "WCF Options" tag on the project properties?

Additional Info:

  • Even when I create a new WCF Service
    Library from scratch, there is no
    "WCF Options" tab.
  • Even when I create
    a new WCF Service Library with
    Visual Web Developer 2008 Express
    there is no "WCF Options" tab.

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Best Answer

If you create a new WCF service library project and inspect its .csproj, is there a section like below?

  <ProjectExtensions>
    <VisualStudio>
      <FlavorProperties GUID="{3D9AD99F-2412-4246-B90B-4EAA41C64699}">
        <WcfProjectProperties>
          <AutoStart>True</AutoStart>
        </WcfProjectProperties>
      </FlavorProperties>
    </VisualStudio>
  </ProjectExtensions>

If not, what happens when you add it yourself?

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