How to change WSDL URL from internal machine name to public?

Question

I have a simple service that I deployed to Azure. It is accessible via:

http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudapp.net/MyTestService.svc

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Answer 1

Ok. I have been looking at this for almost a week. I finally found the answer, since it is not easily available I hope this gets indexed and save the time for others.

Basically this overall behavior as a known issue with WCF 3.0/3.5, for which they released a hotfix. You can find out more here: FIX: URIs in a WCF WSDL document refer to inaccessible internal instances instead of to the load balancer...

I had come across this a few times during my research but never gave it a 2nd thought, mostly because I had no idea how I would deploy a hotfix into Azure.

Fortunately, a Microsoft moderator at the MSDN forums pointed out that this had been fixed in .net 4.0. What this meant was that the "fix" recommended in the KB article above, still applied, with the exception that no hotfix had to be applied. So what is the solution? Simple, add the following to the config file:

And that was it. This would have been a much simpler search if it had been clearer that this issue had now been fixed. Perhaps I didnt look hard enough.