Hosting WCF Services in IIS | Pluralsight
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users cite it as the tutorial they followed while trying to host a WCF service in IIS, usually when the steps fail for them and they ask what went wrong.
Recommended by 0 people across 0 different months, 2010 to 2011.
What it is
A short Pluralsight screencast from 2009 showing how to host a WCF service inside IIS. It walks through creating an .svc file, configuring the service in Web.config, and testing it in the ASP.NET Development Server in Visual Studio 2008.
What people said
Cites CSharpNoob · 2010-10 · Stack Overflow · on “Trouble in hosting WCF Service in IIS 5.1”
I am having trouble hosting a simple WCF service application in IIS 5.1 (XP SP3). I follow this Pluralsight tutorial ( [this video] ) but still the service won't load and shows IE blank page "You are not authorized to view this page .. HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden " any advice? how to host WCF service in IIS 5.1.
Cites wittythotha · 2011-05 · Stack Overflow · on “XML Parsing Error: no element found Location: http://localhost:8000/web.config Line Number 1, Column 1”
I'm a newbie to WCF and IIS, and when I try to host a web service in IIS and open it in the browser it shows me the above XML Parsing error. I've tried all the points mentioned in related posts, but it doesnt seem to work. Is there any solution that I might have missed out? EDIT: i followed all the steps exactly as mentioned here. [this video] ... But , i still get the same XML parsing error when i try to host the service in IIS. If possible, can anyone try following that video and tell me if it works. Thanks
Cites user772110 · 2011-06 · Stack Overflow · on “When creating website to host WCF service, edit wcf config gives "no service found"”
I am new to WCF and have what I think should be a simple question. I created a solution that contains a WCF service library, and a website to host the service. In the website I reference the service library proj, so the service.dll is in my website's /bin. I edited the .svc file in the website to use the referenced project's service, but when I right click on the web.config and choose "Edit WCF Configuration" under services it says "No services defined". I am following this tutorial, [this video] and when he does the "Edit WCF Configuration" step, the referenced service is listed. He is using vs2008, I am using vs2010. Am I missing something? I am hope I have provided is enough info to get some a