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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FYI - YOU CAN also get this error from a machine that is not having enough memory free. I got this error on a machine I run with 16 gigs of memory. I had a VM running with 6 gigs and a LOT of memory intensive apps. Close some down and this problem went away.

I still did get the error in the title of the question of

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

I did notice a larger message about memory though in using the WCF Test Client.

Hope this helps someone else.