This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol

Question

I have a WCF Service running fine on my local machine. I put it on the servers, and I am receiving the following error:

An error occurred while receiv

Answer 1

This could be due to many reasons; below are few of those:

1. If you are using complex data contract objects(that means custom object with more child custom objects), make sure you have all the custom objects decorated with DataContract and DataMember attributes

2. If your data contract objects use inheritance, make sure all base classes has the DataContract and DataMember attributes. Also, you need to have the base classes specify the derived classes with the [KnownType(typeof(BaseClassType))] attribute ( check out more info here on this).

3. Make sure all your data contract object properties have both get and set properties.