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Asked: 2026-05-30T14:02:56+00:00

I am having some difficulty in deploying my WCF service alongside my ASP.NET web

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I am having some difficulty in deploying my WCF service alongside my ASP.NET web application. I have everything working on my local machine (defined my address, bindings, contract) and I can call the service from my ASP.NET (MVC) web application. (Base URL right now is http://localhost:####/Design_Time_Address/Fully/Qualified/Service/)

Unfortunately, once I attempt to deploy, things tend to blow up.

Here is what I currently am doing. Please let me know if one or more steps are incorrect.

  1. I have a service reference to my WCF Service in my ASP.NET MVC project.
  2. I first attempted to just deploy the MVC project using web deploy. The MVC part worked fine, but it couldn’t find my service. (Although, interestingly enough, I can see the DLLs to my service on my host.)
  3. So, after messing with this for a bit, I then tried to upload my service separately via SFTP. I was able to hit the .svc file at one point, but lately I’ve been receiving errors. (I’m assuming this is because I’ve been trying to figure it out and have screwed it up royally.)
  4. I get a bit confused here because I don’t understand what the address should be, or how I should configure it within the WCF App.config file so that my MVC application can access it.

Like I said, I was good until I had to deploy and, unfortunately, I am unable to find any tutorials that can help me out.

What am I not understanding is what setup I need to do to be able to access my service via my MVC application through the host server? Do I need to provide the service reference in my MVC project as I’m doing now? Do I have to configure something in the WCF service directly? Is it possible just to do web deploy and Stuff Just Works(TM)?

Appreciate your help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    So, it turns out the problem was very easily solved…unfortunately, in this case, I was a complete noob. Instead of creating a WCF Service Application, I had created a WCF Service Library. Switched to a WCF Service Application, set up my end points, added the DEPLOYED service to my MVC application, and it worked like a charm.

    Feeling like a newbie today…

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