Failed to add a service. Service metadata may not be accessible. Make sure your service is running and exposing metadata.`

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After I modified the web.config and I don\'t get error that\'s good.... then I add a new page (html) and write this small code to consume the serv

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You need to add a metadata exchange (mex) endpoint to your service:

Now, you should be able to get metadata for your service

Update: ok, so you're just launching this from Visual Studio - in that case, it will be hosted in Cassini, the built-in web server. That beast however only supports HTTP - you're not using that protocol in your binding...

Also, since you're hosting this in Cassini, the address of your service will be dictated by Cassini - you don't get to define anything.

So my suggestion would be:

• try to use http binding (just now for testing)
• get this to work
• once you know it works, change it to your custom binding and host it in IIS

So I would change the config to:

   
      
         
      
   


   
      
          binding="basicHttpBinding" 
          contract="MyService.IMyService"/>
      
   

Once you have that, try to do a View in Browser on your SVC file in your Visual Studio solution - if that doesn't work, you still have a major problem of some sort.

If it works - now you can press F5 in VS and your service should come up, and using the WCF Test Client app, you should be able to get your service metadata from a) the address that Cassini started your service on, or b) the mex address (Cassini's address + /mex)