Playing with Popfly Explorer in VS.NET 2008
I continued today to play around with more Popfly goodness. My favorite part is that there is a new Popfly Explorer add-in for VS.NET 2008. This add-in integrates the Popfly block development experience into Visual Studio. I am a big fan. Right from the beginning, you can see from this pic that you get to create Popfly blocks from the New Web Site interface:
And then once the project is open, you get a schema with the XML block description file. As well as intellisense when writing the javascript including the AJAX and Popfly environment methods. This explorer syncs your project with the Popfly service. Even cooler, just clicking Start Debugging publishes the project to Popfly, launches the browser, and gives you a test mashup with your block in it. Click Preview and it will run including support for VS.NET breakpoints. Here is a pic of the explorer:
You can get the Popfly explorer by downloading it from the Popfly service site. Just click Create Stuff -> Block. You will see a link in the tutorial window for the Beta.
Last but not least, I discovered in the Create Block functionality of the Popfly service a new link to "Generate Block from WSDL". I played with a few services and sure enough it built a functioning block including formatting the SOAP message.
