First try wcf data service always times out from client - linq

Question

I have read all other posts and have been googling this for the last 2 hours! I started WCF Data Services about 3 hours ago btw.
My service is on an asp.net4 app, the ado entity model exposes an sql server db.
Here is FasDataService.svc.cs
public class FasDataService : DataService<FASStoreEntities>
{
public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config)
{
config.DataServiceBehavior.MaxProtocolVersion = DataServiceProtocolVersion.V2;
config.UseVerboseErrors = true;
config.SetServiceOperationAccessRule("*", ServiceOperationRights.All);
config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("*", EntitySetRights.All);
}
}
I have then a winforms 4 app with the following code in the Main()
FASStoreEntities fas = new FASStoreEntities(u);
var a = from al in fas.Customers
where al.Name == "Alinio"
select al;
MessageBox.Show(a.First().Phone1);
When I run the web app and point to http://localhost:15995/FasDataService.svc/Customers(1) it loads up the one and only customer in there
My error is WebException was unhandled:
The operation has timed out. The inner
exception is null.
Also, everything is local but when I do this (in chrome) it takes a good load of time! Its scary to think of how it would perform in production?

Answer 1

For some reason, today I installed fiddler and tried it and it works! I also, queried the service with linqpad and it worked no prob!
Although throughout today I played with wcf data services and had tons of problems accessing data because of all kinds of errors, data connection was still open, some error insert excess data in a field etc etc.
Fiddler was very helpful at diagnosing what the error was, its very difficult to figure out what really went wrong so fiddler is a must have.