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[Title] Metadata Explorer [Category] Essentials [Last Updated] 1/9/2010 [Description] 
The Metadata Explorer is a helper utility that visualizes the available service endpoints of a running service. This is done using metadata exchange - roughly the WCF equivalent of .NET reflection. Metadata contains not just contracts and operations but also information about security, transactions, reliability and faults. WCF makes it easy to programmatically query and discover the metadata of a service. The tool uses WCF's MetadataExchangeClient and MetadataImporter, and WsdlImporter to obtain and parse the metadata into endpoints. The Metadata Explorer tool simply visualizes the information returned and is very useful in seeing what a service has to offer without resorting to development tools. The tools also utilizes discovery, allowing
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