Exercise 1: Verification

1. Right-click EchoService.svc, and select View in Browser, to open the service in a new browser instance.

2. You should see a service with metadata publishing disabled

   Figure 5

   The service has metadata publishing disabled

   Note:

   Why is metadata publishing disabled? Is this service even working? What binding is it using?

   Yes, this is a working service. Without any configuration, it is using all the default settings, which means that metadata publishing is disabled. Since the service is hosted in an ASP.NET Web Site the service has an address that begins with http. WCF4 maps bindings to schemes. The default binding for http addresses is basicHttpBinding.

Next Step

Exercise 2: Service Behaviors