I'm wanting to get a WCF-over-TCP service working. I was having some problems with modifying my own project, so I thought I'd start with
the "base" WCF template included in VS2008.
Here is
the initial WCF App.config and when I run
the service
the WCF Test Client can work with it fine:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="WcfTcpTest.Service1" behaviorConfiguration="WcfTcpTest.Service1Behavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:8731/Design_Time_Addresses/WcfTcpTest/Service1/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="WcfTcpTest.IService1">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="WcfTcpTest.Service1Behavior">
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="True" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>
This works perfectly, no issues at all.
I figured changing it from HTTP to TCP would be trivial: change
the bindings to their TCP equivalents and remove
the httpGetEnabled serviceMetadata element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" />
</system.web>
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="WcfTcpTest.Service1" behaviorConfiguration="WcfTcpTest.Service1Behavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="net.tcp://localhost:1337/Service1/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint address="" binding="netTcpBinding" contract="WcfTcpTest.IService1">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexTcpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="WcfTcpTest.Service1Behavior">
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="True" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>
But when I run this I get this error in
the WCF Service Host:
System.InvalidOperationException:
The contract
name 'IMetadataExchange' could not be found in
the list of contracts implemented by
the service Service1. Add a ServiceMetadataBehavior to
the configuration file or to
the ServiceHost directly to enable support for this contract.
I get
the feeling that you can't send metadata using TCP, but that's
the case why is there a mexTcpBinding option?
