V.V.Weird WCF Web Service problem

Have created a very weird WCF Web Service problem for myself.

I've built myself a RESTful WCF Web Service by following this skonnard article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203052.aspx 

If I leave my service alone for a while and then test the URI path again that was returning some JSON data, the browser will download the .svc file instead!

I can get the service going again by pointing Visual Studio at the IIS Application Folder, deleting the web.config file and getting VS to create a new one. Then we're off and running again for a while before the behaviour returns.

So very weird. First I saw the problem I thought the .svc handler mappings were borked, though a cursory inspection indicated they looked ok, so I ran ServiceModelReg.exe -i - didn't help.

Am really scratching my head on this one...  <LittleMiniRant>and getting quiet sick of WCF, it seems more trouble than it's worth. People I know that work with WCF a lot, get very superstitious about the config, once it's up and running it is NOT ALTERED for any reason WHATSOEVER.</LittleMiniRant>

The problem with WCF is it is a black box with thousands of settings which makes it hard to debug, so you need tracing and so on.

The .svc is the real place that the service is hosted, whereas the URI just points to the virtual directory. Where are you hosting the service and what version of IIS are you using?

vesuvius said:

The problem with WCF is it is a black box with thousands of settings which makes it hard to debug, so you need tracing and so on.

 

The .svc is the real place that the service is hosted, whereas the URI just points to the virtual directory. Where are you hosting the service and what version of IIS are you using?

Hi. The service is in child Application folder off of the root Default Web Site on my local Windows 7 machine, so it's IIS v7.5.

The URI path I use for testing literally just looks like this  http://localhost/rest/Service.svc?filter=bla  at the moment.