We’ve got the “the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive could not be found” error message when we renamed (and moved) and .svc-file. There are not a very good support for that in Visual Studio 2008.
The error message we’ve got had to do with us forgetting to rename the class that implemented our interface for the service (the one with the operation-contract on it).
Here are the places you’ll need to search and replace when you do a rename:
- The .svc-file itself
- The markup-file of the .svc-file
- The web.config of the service
- The class that implements your service-contract interface
Then you’ll have some trouble to update the reference that the clients are using. Better remove it and then add it again.
Hmmm - not very pretty this..