Current Working directory for WCF Application - wcf

I have an VB6 com object which i need to wrap it in .net and expose as WCF web service.
The com .dll has some configuration files which needs to be placed in it current directory.
For testing the com object, i have created a console application and executed, from the logs generated by the component i can see that it is pointing to current directory and getting the config files and working as expected.
Now when i host this in WCF service, Com object stoped working. I wondered and gave below command in my wcf application
Logger.Log("current path: " + System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory());
Now in my log i see that current path is "c:\winnt\system32" !!!!!! And concluded that this might be the reason why the component is not working as expected in wcf.
Note: I have published my wcf into another folder in "d:" drive.
My Question :
What is the reason behind "c:\winnt\system32"?
Thanks for your help!
[Update]
Now it gets wierd, I have changed current directory with below method.
System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory()
Now the dll points to below path
C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\service\b5fc8f06\28f29236\assembly\dl3\1945abc0\00563626_8b5bce01\

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Publish a WCFService doesn't work; Debugging-mode works

I want to start an default webservice-project, where I can send data over a service. When I go to debug the API through VS then everything works fine, but not when I try to use it over IIS.
I created an WcfServiceLibrary-Project in Visual Studio 2017. I then right-clicked on the project (in the solution explorer) and then published it to a folder A.
I also didn't do anything special at IIS (all the things are still on localhost.): I activated the default windows-feature "IIS". (The default web site got also stopped). Then I added there a site with an random name and the path to the folder A. The service got started.
My access trial was to find anything through Visual Studios "connected services".
Has anyone an idea?
At first, please use the WCF service application project template,
or the Appconfig file would not be kicked in. library project needs the additional configuration in the hosting environment, and the Appconfig file could not recognized. We have to move the configuration code into the configuration file recognized by your hosting environment.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/deploying-a-wcf-library-project
Secondly, for hosting the WCF service in IIS, we should enable the below windows feature.
Feel free to let me know if the problem still exists.

WCF service reference in class library

I added wcf service (exposed by biztalk) proxy and app.config file in VS 2005 class library project and i am calling this class library methods from windows application. In this case getting error while creating service instance, so i moved app.config file from class library to window applcation, now working fine.
Question: If i will change service url from machine001 to machine002 in config file (from bin folder but not from application) and run the app from exe file. Will it work without build.
Class library configuration always depends on configuration file (web.config / app.config) of parent application that is really using it. And Parent application should be a console / winform / ASP.NET application and can be a windows service. Any change in WinForm's app.config will change the behavior of your class library.
To Answer your question, Yes if you change service url from machine001 to machine002 in config file of windows application it will work if machine002 is hosting the WCF service.
Hope it clears your doubt.

Error 404 - file not found on Silverlight RIA service call

I have search everywhere for a solution to my problem, but I am not able to find one. I have built a Silverlight 4 Navigation app, and am using RIA Services to process a custom entity (which is essentially running server-side calls to COM dlls). In my debug environment, everything works fine, but when I try to deploy to IIS7 (on the development machine) as a website, it gives me the following error when calling the Get query on the entity:
Load operation failed for query 'GetNewHWCoil'. The remote server returned an error: NotFound.
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.OperationBase.Complete(Exception error)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.LoadOperation.Complete(Exception error)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.DomainContext.CompleteLoad(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
at System.ServiceModel.DomainServices.Client.DomainContext.<>c__DisplayClass1b.<Load>b__17(Object )
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The function (or Query as RIA services calls it) GetNewHWCoil is located in the DomainService class and uses this code:
Public Function GetNewHWCoil() as HWCoil 'HWCoil is a custom object
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Return mHWCoil 'global copy of the calculated coil object
bRanCalc = False
else
Return New HWCoil
end if
End Function
The error runs before any calculation should be called, so it is assumed that it is erroring on the 'Return New HWCoil' part.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
I found the solution to my problem. I fonud out that I can have VS run the debug from IIS, and when I had it create the virtual directory it told me I needed to install ASP.NET 4 on the server. I thought that by checking the ASP.NET checkbox in the Add Windows Features dialog that I had already done that. But it only installed .NET 2 version. So after looking online for this new problem, I found that I needed to run the command
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\aspnet_regiis -i
and everything worked fine after that.
Chris

WCF Service Reference issue on production in console application

I have 1 c# Console Application project, which has Program.cs (that contains main method), the main method simple calls a web service method and displays the string on the console.
The service reference is added in the project by right clicking it and adding service reference it to it.
when the console application is executed in debug mode from visual studio, it works as expected.
when the console application is executed from a .exe found in /bin/debug, it works as expected.
so far so good.
PROBLEM:
when the project is copied over to the system (you can call it a production environment), where this .exe will actually be executed, it fails at the exact line where i create the service proxy object. the line in Program.cs is:
ProjectName.ServiceReference.ServiceClient service = new ProjectName.ServiceReference.ServiceClient();
I know it fails here, because i have Console.Writeline("some line"); before and after the above line. I can see the Console.Writeline that is before the proxy line, and soon after that it crashes ...
I think this is because the reference paths that are referencing the service, is there any thing i can do to change the paths, or confirm that it is the path issue as suspected ...??
any idea whats going wrong ..???
Check this link: http://blog.davidsandor.com/post/Workaround-The-configuration-for-the-servicee280a6Unrecognized-element-e28098extendedProtectionPolicye28099.aspx
The configuration for the service reference could not be updated due
to the following issue: Unrecognized element
‘extendedProtectionPolicy’. (App.config / Web.config)
There does not seem to be a really clear reason why this is happening
however it seems to be related to Windows 7. I am not sure if the
.NET framework that ships with Win7 has some different setting or
template for the WCF configuration policy files but it seems to be the
culprit. Maybe the machine.config files are different on Win 7 and
the WCF configuration tools use the machine.config as some sort of
policy template.
The fix is annoying (because every time you build your solution on
Windows 7 and then rebuild on Vista you have to redo this).
Remove the line:
<extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement="Never" />
from both your App/Web.config file on the client and on the WCF
server’s Web.config file.

Debug WCF service hosted in local IIS not working

I have one solution WCFSampleSolution and it has all my projects - Web Service, Client and Website. The structure is something like:
WCFSampleSolution
C:\WCFSample\Website
WCFService
WCFWebClient
I created WCFService project for my services. It contains IService1.cs and Service1.cs. Then I hosted the service in IIS. I did this by creating a website and adding .svc and web.config files to the website project. Then published it in IIS. When I run http:\MyMachineName\Website\Service.svc, it shows the service description. Then I create the web client that calls the webservice. I used the service reference to add the service. It calls a method of Service1. It works fine. But I amnot able to debug this program/setup. I verified the config files in WCFWebClient project and Website project and they have proper debug settings.
<compilation debug="true">
I put break points but control never goes to my seb service. I also tried attach process, but it also doesn't work. But I was able to debug one of my other WCF projects. The setup was little different. In that project I copied the .svc file and config in my web client and the debug works fine.
Please HELP!!
You are hosting your service on IIS so I am sure you must be attaching to w3wp.exe process. While trying to attach if VS built in web server is starting, then attach to that process as well.
What I find particularly easy is having two instances of visual studio open (especially if you use NUnit or doing anything to test out code). One will attach NUnit or whatever you wish, and the other will attach the w3wp.exe process. The easiest way is to:
1) Put a break point in the 1st instance of visual studio of the code right before it will hit the WCF service hosted on your machine.
2) Once the code stops at your breakpoint, set breakpoints in the 2nd instance of visual studio where you want to break then attach the w3wp.exe process.
3) Once you continue, the breakpoint on the service code should be hit.
It is sometimes easier to find the process id as well when attaching w3wp.exe. Using IIS, you can go to "Worker Process" and find the process id to attach for your Application Pool Name.
#user465876 - another approach that is less of a hassle can be found here: WCF can no longer step into a service that's locally hosted -- why not?