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', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found.

When I run the WCF service from the test client, all works fine.

Eval service:

[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.Single)]
public class EvalService : IEvalService
{
    Dictionary<string, JobPhaseTimer> jobTimers = new Dictionary<string, JobPhaseTimer>();

    public void SubmitEntry(ENBO.Jobs.Job job, ENBO.Jobs.JobDetail jobDetail, ENBO.TimeLogs.TimeLog timeLog, ENBO.Users.User user, ENBO.Utilities.EntryType entryType, JobPhase jobPhase)
    {
        if (entryType == EntryType.Active)
        {
            JobPhaseTimer timer = new JobPhaseTimer();
            timer.UID = job.ID + "_" + jobPhase.ID;
            timer.JobID = job.ID;
            timer.JobDetailID = jobDetail.ID;
            timer.PhaseID = jobPhase.ID;
            timer.StartTime = DateTime.Now;
            timer.Stopwatch.Start();
            jobTimers.Add(timer.UID, timer);

            TimeLog log = new TimeLog();
            log.JobID = job.ID;
            log.PhaseID = jobPhase.ID;
            log.UserID = user.ID;
            log.DateEntry = DateTime.Now;
            log.EntryType = EntryType.Active;

            if (log.AddNewTimeLog())
            {
                //Do something
            }
        }
        else if (entryType == EntryType.Paused)
        {
            JobPhaseTimer timer = jobTimers[job.ID + "_" + jobPhase.ID];
            timer.Stopwatch.Stop();

            TimeLog log = new TimeLog();
            log.JobID = job.ID;
            log.PhaseID = jobPhase.ID;
            log.UserID = user.ID;
            log.DateEntry = DateTime.Now;
            log.EntryType = EntryType.Paused;

            if (log.AddNewTimeLog())
            {
                //Do something
            }
        }
    }
}

IEvalService.cs (Service Contract)

[ServiceContract]
public interface IEvalService
{
    [OperationContract]
    void SubmitEntry(Job job, JobDetail jobDetail, TimeLog timeLog, User user, EntryType entryType, JobPhase jobPhase);
}

Eval.svc markup :

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="EvalServiceLibary.Eval" %>

Web.config :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

  <appSettings>
    <add key="aspnet:UseTaskFriendlySynchronizationContext" value="true" />
  </appSettings>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
    <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5"/>
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="EvalServiceLibary.EvalService">
        <endpoint address="" behaviorConfiguration="" binding="webHttpBinding"
      contract="EvalServiceLibary.IEvalService" />
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration=""
      contract="EvalServiceLibary.IEvalService" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <endpointBehaviors>
        <behavior name="EvalServiceSite.EvalAspNetAjaxBehavior">
          <enableWebScript />
        </behavior>
      </endpointBehaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <protocolMapping>
        <add binding="basicHttpsBinding" scheme="https" />
    </protocolMapping>    
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true"
      multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Any ideas why I am getting this error? I have searched Google and come across a few pages but nothing seems to work.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Change the following line in your Eval.svc file from:

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="EvalServiceLibary.Eval" %> 

to:

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="EvalServiceLibary.EvalService" %>

Answer 2

Ensure that binary files are under "bin" subdirectory of your ".svc" file

Answer 3

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