Chapter 10 How to run WCF from web site

UriF · March 19th, 2015, 10:05 PM

I have desktop with Windows 8.1 Pro x64 (upgraded from Win 8 Pro) and installed Visual Studio 2003 express for Web (yesterday I installed community edition). I created a simple WCF service as was written in the book (I found on Internet similar solution) but I received this error:

Code:

Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from http://localhost:58696/WebServices/NameService.svc If this is a Windows (R) Communication Foundation service to which you have access, please check that you have enabled metadata publishing at the specified address.  For help enabling metadata publishing, please refer to the MSDN documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata Exchange Error    URI: http://localhost:58696/WebServices/NameService.svc    Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://localhost:58696/WebServices/NameService.svc'.    There was no endpoint listening at http://localhost:58696/WebServices/NameService.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.    The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.HTTP GET Error    URI: http://localhost:58696/WebServices/NameService.svc    The HTML document does not contain Web service discovery information.

I tried to find a solution but I did not find anything. At first I thought that I wave problems with my computer but I found out this example

http://mikesknowledgebase.azurewebsi...ment-949587244

I tried before steps #1-#5 and I could test WCF.

I even tried Programs & Features .NET framework 4.5 advanced features - WCF - HTTP activation and target to .NET 4.0 but no way. Thank you for your help. I am novice in Web Development and I would appreciate any suggestions.

I suggest that it is necessary to change something in web.config. Otherwise it is only chance to create a separate WCF project and set reference to compiled WCF???

Imar · March 20th, 2015, 10:08 AM

Hi there,

How are you viewing the service and where do you get this service? I just created a new empty web site, add a service, right-clicked the .svc file and chose View in Browser and then it works for me.

Is the code in the correct place (in App_Code) and did you save all your changes?

Imar

UriF · March 20th, 2015, 09:41 PM

I created a new empty web site. Then I added a new item - web service. I did not add any new code (default method). Vs2013 automatically created a .cs (I use C#) file. Then I selected this file and pressed F5. I see a progess bar that try to add a service. After progress bar reached approx 50% (or 60%) progress bar disappeared and I see above mentioned message.

I tried this clean experiment after I tried to run service (I tried to run samples from chapter 1 to chapter 10 in the same web site). Of cource .cs file appeared in the folder App_Code.

Sorry, do you use Win7 or Win8? I even opened "Program & Features" and under Win Components IIS checked HTTP activate (I am not at home now; hence I do not remember how exactly it named). I even tried to add settings from the above mentioned WCF/Jason project. No result... I understand that something wrong with IIS or VS settings but I spent more than 6 hours on Internet and I was surprised - a lot of people have this problem with Win8 but never had problems with Win7

Thank you again

Imar · March 21st, 2015, 10:32 AM

Hi there,

Don't hit F5 to run the service as it'll open itself in the WCF Test Client. Instead, right-click it and choose View In Browser. That should work, and you should see the screen from the book. The service should work just fine when called from client side script.

Cheers,

Imar

UriF · March 23rd, 2015, 10:42 AM

Thank you. I did it and everything is fine