Azure WCF Services cannot run locally on Windows 8

Question

I just upgraded to Windows 8 and I can no longer run my WCF services on the Azure emulator. When I try to send requests to them, I always get a 404 (Except one service, which gives me a 404 Method Not Allowed error). I am using all projects that run great locally on my old Windows 7 computer. Just to see what would happen, I created a brand new service, and it also returned 404 errors. I'm not seeing any enlightening errors in the Diagnostics folders or anywhere else. I'm completely stuck here.

Can anyone help me? I need to get my machine up and running with Azure ASAP.

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Mike Olson
Software Architect - CenterX

Answer 1

Some further research led me to this Hotfix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981002

Which does not install due to the error: 

Installer encountered an error: 0x80096002

The certificate for the signer of the message is invalid or not found.

So I don't know whether that was the problem or not, but I can't install that hotfix anyway.

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Mike Olson
Software Architect - CenterX

Answer 2

WCF Activation... The eternal bane of my existence.

http://robindotnet.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/doing-azure-development-on-windows-8/

The fix:

Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off

Expand .NET Framework 4.5 Advanced Services -> WCF Services, select HTTP Activation.

Even though I'm using .NET 4.0 I went ahead and selected WCF HTTP Activation under .NET Framework 3.5 as well.

This fixed my problem.

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Mike Olson
Software Architect - CenterX

Answer 3

Thx! Finally got my old project running.

Really odd to activate things you don't think you use...

Regards
Tommy