Error encountered in WCF Data Service: does not implement a ServiceContract type

Question

User1965173075 posted

I am learning about WCF web services enabling access to a SQL database following the process set out in the msdn community (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728275.aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-2 )

I have created a data model (Seiji.edmx) and a WCF Data Service item (VB) with the following code:

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Imports System.Data.Services
Imports System.Data.Services.Common
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.ServiceModel.Web

Public Class Seiji
    Public Class Seiji
        Inherits DataService(Of [Seiji])

        ' This method is called only once to initialize service-wide policies.
        Public Shared Sub InitializeService(ByVal config As DataServiceConfiguration)
            ' TODO: set rules to indicate which entity sets and service operations are visible, updatable, etc.
            config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("DimVoter", EntitySetRights.AllRead)
            config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("DimPerson", EntitySetRights.AllRead)
        End Sub

    End Class
End Class

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When I publish this web service to the localhost I am receiving an error:

Service 'Seiji' does not implement a ServiceContract type.

Was hopeful that someone could point me in the correct direction for debugging this?  Cannot find anything online so far regarding this error.

Thanks in advance.