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

This may sound trivial, but worth mentioning: You have to build the service (in Visual Studio) - then a DLL will be created in the bin subfolder.

When the service is "deployed" on a server - that bin folder needs to have that DLL file in it - otherwise this error will be thrown...