Building your first REST service in ASP.NET

If you get this error when following the screencast in Pluralsight's WCF intro screencasts, then just remove the <certificateReference> tags for each endpoint in the app.config.

Thanks to http://net.micheltol.nl/net/post/WCF-Cannot-load-the-X509-certificate-identity-specified-in-the-configuration.aspx

If you get this helpful(!) message when setting up WCF in IIS7 for the first time:

It is likely that you need to run the following command:


servicemodelreg -i

You can find these here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms732012.aspx