WCF Hosted as Service - windows

Question

I have a VB.NET WCF service hosted as a Window Service. I was able to create an install package, install the service to my machine, and start the service manually from Services in Administrative Tools.
Now when I try to reference the service in my test console application (Address: http://localhost:8080/), I get the following error:
There was an error downloading 'http://localhost:8080'.`
Unable to connect to the remote
server No connection could be made
because the target machine actively
refused it 127.0.0.1:8080`
Metadata contains a reference that
cannot be resolved:
'http://localhost:8080/'. Could not
connect to http://localhost:8080/. TCP
error code 10061: No connection could
be made because the target machine
actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8080.
Unable to connect to the remote server
No connection could be made because
the target machine actively refused it
127.0.0.1:8080 If the service is defined in the current solution, try
building the solution and adding the
service reference again.
Not sure what I can do about this. Any ideas???
Thanks,
Jason.
Here's the code from app.config inside my service:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.diagnostics>
<sources>
<!-- This section defines the logging configuration for My.Application.Log -->
<source name="DefaultSource" switchName="DefaultSwitch">
<listeners>
<add name="FileLog"/>
<!-- Uncomment the below section to write to the Application Event Log -->
<!--<add name="EventLog"/>-->
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
<switches>
<add name="DefaultSwitch" value="Information" />
</switches>
<sharedListeners>
<add name="FileLog"
type="Microsoft.VisualBasic.Logging.FileLogTraceListener, Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a, processorArchitecture=MSIL"
initializeData="FileLogWriter"/>
</sharedListeners>
</system.diagnostics>
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="ExStreamWCF.Service1"
behaviorConfiguration="ExStreamWCF.Service1Behavior">
<!-- Service Endpoints -->
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress = "http://localhost:8080/Design_Time_Addresses/JasonsService/Service/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="ExStreamWCF.IService1">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="ExStreamWCF.Service1Behavior">
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>
If anyone needs more from me please let me know!

Answer 1

Not sure if it's really an issue - but on a production server, I would never use localhost as my base address.
So can you try to change:
<service name="ExStreamWCF.Service1"
behaviorConfiguration="ExStreamWCF.Service1Behavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress = "http://localhost:8080/Design_Time_Addresses/JasonsService/Service/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
to
<service name="ExStreamWCF.Service1"
behaviorConfiguration="ExStreamWCF.Service1Behavior">
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress = "http://YourServerName:8080/Design_Time_Addresses/JasonsService/Service/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
Does that make any difference when calling into the service??