How to Create WCF Service in Visual Studio 2013

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When it says add database here...how? I'm using VS 2015 and keep getting cannot login to local with your user name and password? Please help

How to publish this wcf service in IIS ? I WENT TO "PUBLISH" ON SOLN EXPLORER AND clicked on publish and selected the filesystem way . but when i browsed to this location , after mapping it to a new web site , it throws an error : endpoint not found.

Now what ?.............. :(

Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from http://localhost:61469/EmployeeServices.svc If this is a Windows (R) Communication Foundation service to which you have access, please check that you have enabled metadata publishing at the specified address. For help enabling metadata publishing, please refer to the MSDN documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata Exchange Error URI: http://localhost:61469/EmployeeServices.svc Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://localhost:61469/EmployeeServices.svc'. The requested service, 'http://localhost:61469/EmployeeServices.svc' could not be activated. See the server's diagnostic trace logs for more information.HTTP GET Error URI: http://localhost:61469/EmployeeServices.svc There was an error downloading 'http://localhost:61469/EmployeeServices.svc'. The request failed with the error message:-- Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The type 'Wcfdemo.EmployeeServices', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The type 'Wcfdemo.EmployeeServices', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [InvalidOperationException: The type 'Wcfdemo.EmployeeServices', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found.] System.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHostFactory.CreateServiceHost(String constructorString, Uri[] baseAddresses) +60438 System.ServiceModel.HostingManager.CreateService(String normalizedVirtualPath, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) +1420 System.ServiceModel.HostingManager.ActivateService(ServiceActivationInfo serviceActivationInfo, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) +52 System.ServiceModel.HostingManager.EnsureServiceAvailable(String normalizedVirtualPath, EventTraceActivity eventTraceActivity) +641[ServiceActivationException: The service '/EmployeeServices.svc' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: The type 'Wcfdemo.EmployeeServices', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found..] System.Runtime.AsyncResult.End(IAsyncResult result) +488823 System.ServiceModel.Activation.HostedHttpRequestAsyncResult.End(IAsyncResult result) +174 System.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHttpHandler.EndProcessRequest(IAsyncResult result) +11 System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.OnAsyncHandlerCompletion(IAsyncResult ar) +129 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version Information:?Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.6.1087.0 --.

Configuration ErrorDescription: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Sections must only appear once per config file. See the help topic <location> for exceptions. Source Error: Line 59: </service> Line 60: </services> Line 61: <behaviors> Line 62: <serviceBehaviors> Line 63: <behavior name="wcfconfig">

Public class EmployeeServices : IEmployeeServices { public List<Tbl_EmployeeDetails> GetTbl_EmployeeDetails() { EMPLOYEEDETAILSEntities db = new EMPLOYEEDETAILSEntities(); return db.Tbl_EmployeeDetails.*ToList();* } }

Hi Malvik, I need your help in linking a .msd file with wcf service and implementing it with jquery and html.

Hi Malvik, my test client application is in aother PC, so I have to use Ip address or server name instead of localhost. But I got error: Bad Request - Invalid Hostname HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is invalid. How to solve this issue? thanks.

Helpful for beginners. But need more explanation..