WCF: Error Downloading MetaData

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I have an existing project with a Silverlight 3 app. I created a SALESservice.svc. This is working fine. Now I added another TARGETservice.svc to my project
and rebuilt my entire project but when I am trying to add the service reference in to the Silverlight app I get the following error:

There was an error downloading metadata from the address.  Please verify that you have entered a valid address.

I didn't write any code in ISALESservice.svc and ITARGETservice.svc. I have written in SALESservice.svc.cs and TARGETservice.svc.cs files.

Is this causing the error?
SALESservice.svc is working. I didn't add any code in web.config file.

Regards,
JN

[orig. title]
how can I solve There was an error downloading metadata from the address error in WCF In VS 2008?

Posted 23-Feb-11 23:58pm

SRIRAM 2

Updated 26-Jul-17 1:10am

Slacker007

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dan!sh 24-Feb-11 9:52am

Have you provided correct service endpoint? And can you access it via browser?

ArunRajendra 3-Jul-13 0:50am

Remove the newly added service to verify if that's what is causing the error.

CHill60 3-Jul-13 7:29am

It is not quite a "newly added" service as the question is 2 years old :-)

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ajirahman · Answer 1 · 2012-10-17T02:02:00

Solution 5

It may cause due to different port or service name used when adding the service reference.

Make sure the port or service name same when the time of being added service reference

Posted 17-Oct-12 2:02am

ajirahman

srinvias kumar lumeris · Answer 2 · 2013-07-02T18:34:00

Solution 6

plz check end points & attributes for the created & existing services,

check all the settings related to wcf services then deploy & consume

Posted 2-Jul-13 18:34pm

srinvias kumar lumeris

Member 4304929 · Answer 3 · 2013-08-08T07:38:00

Solution 7

Solution 7

I was using a class that I was returning from a WCF call that did not have the correct Data Contract or Data Member decorations associated with it or it's properties. As soon as this was corrected, it updated normally.

Posted 8-Aug-13 7:38am

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