Question

Ok this is going to seem really daft but but essentially this is what i’m trying to do in a nutshell …
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465161.aspx

The problem is that when I create the WCF Data Service and browse to it everything looks good at the root level and as soon as I leave the root I get http 500 errors.

I get no decent information on how to fix the error or what went wrong it says “Internal server error” … not helpful.

So my question is sort of twofold …
How do I setup a simple WCF Data service that relies on an entity model then bind some simple data to a listbox or something in a WPF client?

but also …

How do I debug those http 500 errors?

Just for clarification:

I followed the steps here …
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728275.aspx
… to create the model and service.

The root url “http://localhost/Northwind.svc” works fine.

Browsing to “http://localhost/Northwind.svc/Orders” causes a http 500.

Answer 1

This helps a LOT:
Link

Also download fiddler you can use it to monitor requests/responses (See this)