Warning and Error Message Scrub

[mraineri]

The error and warning messages produced by the tool and included in the HTML reports require review and scrubbing. For users familiar with the tool and its workings, the existing messages suffice to help diagnose service issue. However, to untrained users, the messages and be daunting and not easily describe the real issue. Some examples…

• err.Resource.Name
  • This could be displayed as “Required property missing: Name”
• invalidNamedProperty.complex
  • This could be displayed as “Unknown property: ”
• err.Edm.DateTimeOffset
  • This could be displayed as “Invalid format for property DateTimeOffset: ”

A careful review of the tool is required to enhance the messages used to produce something more novice friendly.