Question

Im having issues deploying a silverlight 3 application for the first time.

The issue is with a service reference, the Authentication one. This all works fine locally inside of VS 2008.

I cannot add new service and discover the hosted one. Eg the localpath is

http://localhost:9626/Services/AuthenticationService.svc

But if i try to discover in VS with

http://www.mydomain.com/Services/AuthenticationService.svc

I get:

The document at the url http://www.mydomain.com/Services/AuthenticationService.svc was not recognized as a known document type.
The error message from each known type may help you fix the problem:
– Report from ‘DISCO Document’ is ‘Name cannot begin with the ‘%’ character, hexadecimal value 0x25. Line 1, position 2.’.
– Report from ‘WSDL Document’ is ‘There is an error in XML document (1, 2).’.
– Name cannot begin with the ‘%’ character, hexadecimal value 0x25. Line 1, position 2.
– Report from ‘XML Schema’ is ‘Name cannot begin with the ‘%’ character, hexadecimal value 0x25. Line 1, position 2.’.
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: ‘http://www.mydomain.com/Services/AuthenticationService.svc‘.
The remote server returned an unexpected response: (405) Method Not Allowed.
The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed.
If the service is defined in the current solution, try building the solution and adding the service reference again.

So, i first enabled directory browsing and couldnt browse to the .svc file. So I added .svc mime type to iis and i can now navigate to it fine, and it shows the correct declaration

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Service="System.Web.ApplicationServices.AuthenticationService" %>

So im at a bit of a loss at where to go from here. Im assuming once i can get the service running in VS pointing to my hosted site i could build and upload and all would be fine?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

–edit

Here are the entries in the web.config, they are a bit of a mess at the moment, and i do have other services bar the Auth one.

Link to web.config section here, having issues posting it all

Thanks again

–edit two

Ive now followed this post and now I have:
this error

Answer 1

Ok, its fixed itself and im not entirely sure what i have done.

Maybe that command needed time for the app pool to recycle? I didnt do anything else on the server since then.