Service has zero application (non-infrastructure) endpoints

Question

I recently created a WCF service (dll) and a service host (exe). I know my WCF service is working correctly since I am able to successfully add the service to WcfTestClient.

Answer 1

As another clue, that indeed fixed this issue in my case.

I'm migrating some WCF services from a console application (that configures in code few WCF services) to an Azure WebRole to publish them in Azure. Every time I add a new service VS edits my web.config and adds this line:

<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true">

Well, with all the advices and answers above I couldn't make it work until I removed all the attributes in the serviceHostingEnvironment element. As you can see I'm not a WCF rockstar but I made it to work with the first Service just by configuring it as:

<service name="FirstService" behaviorConfiguration="metadataBehavior">
                <endpoint address=""
                 binding="wsHttpBinding"
                 bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding_WcfServicesBinding"
                 contract="IFirstService" />

            </service>

but when I added the second Service it stoped working and I realized that those attributes where there again.

I hope it saves you time.

Answer 2

I got a more detailed exception when I added it programmatically - AddServiceEndpoint:

string baseAddress = "http://" + Environment.MachineName + ":8000/Service";
ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(Service), new Uri(baseAddress));  

host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(MyNamespace.IService),
                        new BasicHttpBinding(), baseAddress);
host.Open();

Answer 3

I just had this problem and resolved it by adding the namespace to the service name, e.g.

 <service name="TechResponse">

became

 <service name="SvcClient.TechResponse">

I've also seen it resolved with a Web.config instead of an App.config.

Answer 4

I ran Visual Studio in Administrator mode and it worked for me :) Also, ensure that the app.config file which you are using for writing WCF configuration must be in the project where "ServiceHost" class is used, and not in actual WCF service project.

Answer 5

My problem was when I renamed my default Service1 class for .svc file to a more meaningful name, which caused web.config behaviorConfiguration and endpoint to correspond to old naming convention. Try to fix your web.config.

Answer 6

I just ran into this issue and checked all of the above answers to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious. Well, I had a semi-obvious issue. My casing of my classname in code and the classname I used in the configuration file didn't match.

For example: if the class name is CalculatorService and the configuration file refers to Calculatorservice ... you will get this error.