what is the "behaviorConfiguration" attribute of service?

Question

what is the "behaviorConfiguration" attribute of service?

<services>       <service name="WcfServiceNetMSMQ.Service1" behaviorConfiguration="WcfServiceNetMSMQ.Service1Behavior">         <host>           <baseAddresses>             <add baseAddress = "http://localhost:8010/WcfServiceNetMSMQ/Service1/" />           </baseAddresses>         </host>         <endpoint address ="net.msmq://localhost/private/myqueue" binding="netMsmqBinding" contract="WcfServiceNetMSMQ.IService1">           <identity>             <dns value="localhost"/>           </identity>         </endpoint>         <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>       </service>     </services> 

Answer 1

There are 3 important sections when you configure a WCF service.

1) Defining the Services:

<services>       <service behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoBehavior" name="SOAPRESTDemo">         <endpoint address="rest" behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="ISOAPRESTDemo" />         <endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="ISOAPRESTDemo" />       </service>     </services> 

NOTE the value of behaviorConfiguration is a reference to a section further on in the config see below...

2) Defining the 'Service Behaviours'

 <serviceBehaviors>         <behavior name="SOAPRESTDemoBehavior">           <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>           <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>         </behavior>       </serviceBehaviors> 

3) Defining the 'Endpoint Behaviours'

<endpointBehaviors>         <behavior name="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior">           <webHttp/>         </behavior>       </endpointBehaviors> 

All 3 sections are the basics for what you need to set up a service (although this can be done programatically).

With regard to your question the behaviorConfiguration section relates to point 2 and 3 in my points above. Its where you lay out the sort of actions you want your service to have. for example above I have said that I want to allow MetaData to be published. This will essentially create a WSDL which describes the service.

The full config is here:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration>      <system.web>         <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />     </system.web>    <system.serviceModel>      <!--Set up the service-->     <services>       <service behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoBehavior" name="SOAPRESTDemo">         <endpoint address="rest" behaviorConfiguration="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior" binding="webHttpBinding" contract="ISOAPRESTDemo" />         <endpoint address="soap" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="ISOAPRESTDemo" />       </service>     </services>       <!--Define the behaviours-->     <behaviors>        <serviceBehaviors>         <behavior name="SOAPRESTDemoBehavior">           <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>           <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>         </behavior>       </serviceBehaviors>        <endpointBehaviors>         <behavior name="SOAPRESTDemoEndpointBehavior">           <webHttp/>         </behavior>       </endpointBehaviors>      </behaviors>    </system.serviceModel>  </configuration>