WCF Metadata publishing for this service is currently disabled + Content Type error

Question

That Metadata error is what I get when I browse to the service in a browser. I am not consuming it with a client

and Yes.. I added

Answer 1

I had another issue. I have an IIS asmx application, and inside I've placed a subfolder with svc. Configured it properly, but it didn't give me the metadata until I found this in web.config in parent directory:

<system.web>
  <webServices>
    <soapExtensionTypes>
      <add type="SPFWebService.SPFWebServiceExtension,App_Code" priority="1" group="0" />
    </soapExtensionTypes>
  </webServices>
</system.web>

Fixed it by removing my new service to a separate directory.

Answer 2

Encountered a similar issue. I had the wrong namespace in my service tag in web.config as against the namespace for the service class in the svc file.

web.config

< service name="X.Y.Z.ContentService" behaviorConfiguration="XServiceBehavior">

svc file

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="X.Y.A.ContentService" %>

As seen above, service tag in web.config had namespace X.Y.Z where the svc file had X.Y.A.

(Thanks to Marc)

Answer 3

Your code and config seems fine - except for one little point:

In your <service> tag, you have defined a name that doesn't seem to correspond to the class that actually implements your service:

<service name="DestructionServices.Destro"  ......>
               ************************** 

but your class is:

namespace DestructionServices
{
    .....
    public class TacticalNukeSVC : INukeInterface
    {

Those names need to match! The name= attribute on the <service> tag in config must be exactly what your service class is called - fully qualified, including namespace - so in your case here, it should be:

<service name="DestructionServices.TacticalNukeSVC" ......>

Answer 4

if you have a class with no default constructor an another constructors , then add an empty default constructor , I had the same issue and i resolved it by this .

Answer 5

Previously working WCF with nice~ settings stopped working and shows - error- Metadata publishing for this service is currently disabled.

THOUGH MEX Settings are perfect, still WCF shows above error, reason: The virtual directory created from VS IDE IS NOT Created, though it gives "success" message..

Just Create Virtual Directory in IIS manually , Bingo error is resolved.

Hope it helps!

Answer 6

I had a similar issue. For anyone that might come across this later. My problem was that my service interface did not have the [ServiceContract] DataAnnotation

[ServiceContract] //<--This was missing
public interface IServiceInterface
{
    [OperationContract]
    void Foo(Bar bar)
    //...
}