Enabling WCF services within IIS on Windows Vista

If you installed IIS on Windows Vista after you installed .NET 3.0, like I did, you’ll notice that any references to the .svc file will fail, typically with a 404 not found. It’s easy to see that the .svc mappings aren’t installed, but without consulting some documentation it’s not abundantly clear how to install them. If you’re running Vista, you enable the activation service by turning on a windows feature: Windows Communication Foundation HTTP Activation. You can access the “Turn Windows features on or off” option from your Control Panel.

Hope this saves someone else the time I wasted. :)

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2 Responses to “Enabling WCF services within IIS on Windows Vista”

  1. Dmitry Says:
    April 14th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    This was perfect to get Vista setup for WCF debug without having to dig through MSDN. Thank you.

  2. One Love Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    Thanks dude, saved me a bundle of time.