I needed to inspect the xml coming back from a web service yesterday. So I pulled out the old Web Service Studio and fired it up. I hadn’t used it in a long time, so I was not too surprised to find that it was failing. After some searching, I came up with this open source tool that seems to work really well: Storm – http://storm.codeplex.com . It just does web services, but there is a for sale version that also does WCF.
I have not tried this thing out yet, but it looks pretty cool.
Equilibrium’s Mediarich Visualizer for SharePoint updates document libraries to create thumbnails of the contents. You can then zoom in on the thumbnails to examine the document’s contents. It says it works with 300 different file types. I’ve no idea what the added storage or processing overhead is, but it seems very cool and there is a free version.
http://www.equilibrium.com/Internet/Equil/Products/MediaRich+Visualizer/index.htm