WCF Service, the type provided as the service attribute values…could not be found

Question

When I right click on Eval.svc within Visual Studio 2012 and view in browser, I get the following -

The type \'EvalServiceLibary.Eval\',

Answer 1

I changed the output path of the service. it should be inside bin folder of the service project. Once I put the output path back to bin, it worked.

Answer 2

In my case I did a "Convert to application" to the wrong folder on iis. My application was set in a subfolder of where it should have been.

Answer 3

I had this error when I had the current build configuration in Visual Studio set to something other than Debug.

Answer 4

Turns out that the Eval.svc.cs needed its namespace changed to EvalServiceLibary, rather than EvalServiceSite.

Answer 5

I also had same problem. Purposely my build output path was "..\bin" and it works for me when I set the build output path as "\bin".

Answer 6

Faced this exact issue. The problem resolved when i changed the Service="Namespace.ServiceName" tag in the Markup (right click xxxx.svc and select View Markup in visual studio) to match the namespace i used for my xxxx.svc.cs file