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How to determine the absolute path to the root of the website / web service in the Global.asax

15 November, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

If you want to use the absolute path to the root of the website / web service in the Global.asax you can use the property: System.Web.HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath

Solving: Could not load file or assembly ‘App_Web_squ1ikqu, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified in .NET 4.0

1 June, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

After we virtualized a production machine and booted this virtualized machine, .NET reported some errors after re-registering .NET 4.0 on IIS7 these error where resolved, but one WCF service kept on logging the error: Could

Determine the correct w3wp.exe process ID, to attach the Microsoft Visual Studio debugger to, by using the Windows Task Manager

27 May, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 4 Comments 1 category

If you have multiple application pools started in IIS 7 and you want to determine which w3wp.exe process to attach the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 debugger to, you can use the Microsoft Windows Task Manager.

Using anonymous authentication on a .NET 4.0 WCF service that calls another WCF service

27 May, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Let’s say you created a ASP .NET 4.0 website that uses a WCF service to get data from a Microsoft SQL Server database. The website uses anonymous authentication and you are asked to show data

Solving: Object reference not set to an instance of an object, when calling a WCF service

18 April, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 2 Comments 1 category

I was getting a [Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] error, when calling a WCF service from a client application. The WCF service was build in [Any CPU] configuration, but

How to create a REST Full WCF Service in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

31 January, 2011 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Nice article on creating a REST Full WCF Service. http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/creating-restful-wcf-service?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zones%2Fcss+(CSS+Zone)

How to solve: The WCF error “The service cannot be activated because it does not support ASP.NET compatibility” on IIS 7 and Windows 7

12 April, 2010 Roel van Lisdonk 4 Comments 1 category

On IIS 7 and Windows 7, I got an error (see error below), when debugging mine WCF service. Turned out I had to set [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)] on mine service: using System; using System.Collections.Generic;

How to call and test SOAP or WCF services with complex types

7 April, 2010 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 1 category

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 contains a SOAP and WCF test application [WcfTestClient], located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\WcfTestClient.exe In the following screendumps I will test a SOAP service that uses latitude and longitude

.NET service (.svc) and “The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration”

29 December, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments 0 categories

When you want to debug a .net service (*.svc) and you get the error: “The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration”. Try the solution on: http://tonytriguero.com/iis-7-and-webservices-svc-file-extension/ Open Visual Studio

Resolving the System.InvalidOperationException : Could not find default endpoint element that references contract ‘xxx’ in the ServiceModel client configuration section

2 October, 2009 Roel van Lisdonk 6 Comments 0 categories

After renaming a WCF service reference in Microsoft Visual Studio, you can get the error: System.InvalidOperationException : Could not find default endpoint element that references contract ‘ImportServiceReference.IImportService’ in the ServiceModel client configuration section. This might

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