400 Bad Request Exception: Simple SOAP WCF service with small data

Question

I have a simple WCF service suing SOAP. I have a very simple operation “GetMultiplied “ with very small amount of data. I am getting following exception wh

Answer 1

I solved the problem :-)

I will publish the answer for the benefit of others.

1. Key problem: I was trying to use the manually created wsdl. (I reffered the local copy available inside service - I was using a tool to generate the service code from wsdl). The service was not providing it. I should have tried to view the wsdl from browsing the svc file

2. Ran the service using WcfTestClient. Gave an error that revealed the project name and the namespace that we use should be same. (Otherwise it will append the project name before the namespace name and that will become incorrect namespace)

   Type the “WcfTestClient” command in “Visual Studio Command Prompt”. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wcftoolsteamblog/archive/2010/01/04/tips-for-launching-wcf-test-client.aspx

3. By browsing the svc file in the service, it showed that the metadata publishing is not enabled. Added a service behavior for meta data browsing in the web.config.

4. Used relative path for the service (instead of localhost) error "No protocol binding matches the given address ..."

5. Service Tracing also can be helpful (though did not help me here). Used "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\SvcTraceViewer.exe". Followed the post and the Error file (initializeData="Error.svclog") is stored inside the solution project. Changing it to other locations did not work. How to turn on WCF tracing?

6. Refer One WCF service – two clients; One client does not work