what is the “behaviorConfiguration” attribute of service?

Question

what is the \"behaviorConfiguration\" attribute of service?

Answer 1

There are 3 important sections when you configure a WCF service.

1) Defining the Services:

NOTE the value of behaviorConfiguration is a reference to a section further on in the config see below...

2) Defining the 'Service Behaviours'

3) Defining the 'Endpoint Behaviours'

All 3 sections are the basics for what you need to set up a service (although this can be done programatically).

With regard to your question the behaviorConfiguration section relates to point 2 and 3 in my points above. Its where you lay out the sort of actions you want your service to have. for example above I have said that I want to allow MetaData to be published. This will essentially create a WSDL which describes the service.

The full config is here: