WCF, Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found

Question

I\'m trying to host my service with IIS 6 but I keep get this exception.

    Server Error in \'/WebServices\' Application.
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Answer 1

I had this problem - my service type was in the GAC. It WOULD work if i added the dll containing the type to the bin folder but as it was in the GAC this was NOT what I wanted. I eventually added this to the web.config for the service

and it worked without needing any dlls in the bin folder.