Microsoft Service Configuration Editor - Could Not Load File Or Assembly - wcf

I'm getting stumped by a very basic error. I'm trying to add endpoints to a service through the WCF Service Configuration Editor, and it can't find the default output. Here's every step I can take to reproduce the error.
Add New WCF Service Application
Build Solution
Edit WCF Configuration
Create New Service
Browse to Project Directory for Service Type
Error Message
This should work, but instead I get the following error message:
Could not load file or assembly
'file://...\emptyservice\bin\EmptyService.dll'
or one of its dependencies.
Operation is not supported.
(Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)
What am I doing wrong?

Make sure you open the 'EmptyService.dll' library in your 'bin\Debug' folder.
I had the '... Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515)' message when trying to open the library in the 'publish' folder. I published my service from within Visual Studio using the 'Publish Web Site' option.

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HTTP Error 500.30 (Internal.Cryptography.CryptoThrowHelper+WindowsCryptographicException: The system cannot find the file specified.)

I am trying to deploy the asp.net core Web API to the IIS. This application works perfectly fine on the Visual studio and also when I run the dll using the dotnet command. This application has the certificate for signing the JWT token. After deploying the application to IIS I am getting "HTTP Error 500.30 - ANCM In-Process Start Failure" and I checked the windows log and error message is
Host terminated unexpectedly.
Internal.Cryptography.CryptoThrowHelper+WindowsCryptographicException: The system cannot find the file specified.at Internal.Cryptography.Pal.CertificatePal.FilterPFXStore(Byte[] rawData, SafePasswordHandle password, PfxCertStoreFlags pfxCertStoreFlags)......
I checked the file path and file name everything is correct but some reason IIS is not able to load find the certificate file. Also, I checked the permission and it also looks good. Not sure why I am getting this error message
Also, I ran the same application dll file using the dotnet run command where IIS is pointing to but I am not getting any error. I am getting this error only after deployng to IIS.
On startup.cs file and configuration method I am getting error on this line.
var cert = new X509Certificate2("test_cert.pfx", pwdFrmVault);
I after searching for this error and googling, this solution worked for me. IIS Manager->application pool -> advanced settings ->Under Process model, Load User Profile to true. More detail on link

WCF Enterprise Library ExceptionHandling failing when faultcontracttype in other project

Background: I have a WCF project that is using Microsoft Enterprise Library WCF Exception Handling.
We recently decided to move our operation and data contracts into a separate project (.net assembly) called comanynamespace.xxx.WCF.Utilities. After moving the operation and data contracts, I changed the faultContractType namespace to reflect the new assembly.
Now when I launch the web service in VS2010 I get the following error:
Activation error occured while trying to get instance of type ExceptionPolicyImpl, key "WCF Exception Shielding"
I have tried: ensuring the same references exist in both projects and ensuring that both projects are running under .net 4 (no client modes), etc. Neither helped resolve the issue.
Finally, I copied the Service Fault class back into the Web Service project and changed the namespace in the web.config to point back to the local namespace:
from:
faultContractType="comanynamespace.xxx.WCF.Utilities.ServiceFault, comanynamespace.xxx.WCF.Utilities.Services"
to:
faultContractType="comanynamespace.xxx.Web.Services.ServiceFault, comanynamespace.xxx.Web.Services"
This does resolve the error, however, now I must have my service fault data contract in both locations.
Does anyone know why I am unable to use a service fault (data contract) in another .net assembly with Microsoft EL WCF Exception Handling?
The problem ended up being that the namespace (second part) of the faultcontracttype was set to
faultContractType="companyname.xxx.WCF.Utilities.Services.ServiceFault, companyname.xxx.WCF.Utilities.Services"
instead of
faultContractType="companyname.xxx.WCF.Utilities.Services.ServiceFault, companyname.xxx.WCF.Utilities"
companyname.xxx.WCF.Utilities is the namespace for the assembly.

Error message from svcutil.exe - what does it mean?

I've had not a lot of luck creating a WCF service with Visual Studio. It's in IIS, and it I click 'browse' on the .svc file itself, it tells me I have created a service. So I assume it's all okay to a point.
Throughout my time I came across a recommendation to use a program called svcutil.exe. I used it on my service and got the following error. I don't know what it means, so hopefully someone can shed some light on the situation.
Here's the result:
Microsoft (R) Service Model Metadata Tool
[Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Communication Foundation, Version 3.0.4506.2152]
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Attempting to download metadata from 'http://localhost/EvalServiceSite/Eval.svc'
using WS-Metadata Exchange or DISCO.
Error: Cannot import wsdl:portType
Detail: An exception was thrown while running a WSDL import extension: System.Se
rviceModel.Description.DataContractSerializerMessageContractImporter
Error: Schema with target namespace 'http://tempuri.org/' could not be found.
XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[#targetNamespace='http://tempuri.org/'
]/wsdl:portType[#name='IEvalService']
Error: Cannot import wsdl:binding
Detail: There was an error importing a wsdl:portType that the wsdl:binding is de
pendent on.
XPath to wsdl:portType: //wsdl:definitions[#targetNamespace='http://tempuri.org/
']/wsdl:portType[#name='IEvalService']
XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[#targetNamespace='http://tempuri.org/'
]/wsdl:binding[#name='BasicHttpBinding_IEvalService']
Error: Cannot import wsdl:port
Detail: There was an error importing a wsdl:binding that the wsdl:port is depend
ent on.
XPath to wsdl:binding: //wsdl:definitions[#targetNamespace='http://tempuri.org/'
]/wsdl:binding[#name='BasicHttpBinding_IEvalService']
XPath to Error Source: //wsdl:definitions[#targetNamespace='http://tempuri.org/'
]/wsdl:service[#name='EvalService']/wsdl:port[#name='BasicHttpBinding_IEvalServi
ce']
Generating files...
Warning: No code was generated.
If you were trying to generate a client, this could be because the metadata docu
ments did not contain any valid contracts or services
or because all contracts/services were discovered to exist in /reference assembl
ies. Verify that you passed all the metadata documents to the tool.
Warning: If you would like to generate data contracts from schemas make sure to
use the /dataContractOnly option.
I think this previous Stack Overflow question may help with your current question but not necessarily your problem.
Error: Cannot import wsdl:port with svcutil
You've created your WCF service and you've browsed to it in IIS so you're happy that it is working. The purpose of SVCUtil.exe is to generate classes that you can use in an application to interact with the service with compile time information on the contract members and methods.
it performs the exact same function as adding a service reference in visual studio to consume the service.
If your having trouble, i'd suggest just creating a simple console project in visual studio, adding a service reference and giving it the url of the service you've hosted in IIS. Then click "show all files" in the visual studio solution explorer and look at the reference.cs file it gives you. This will show you what information has been consumed from your service.
Edit
Hi Again,
After going through all the comments below I'm starting to see more about your problem. I think you misunderstand what it is your doing when in fact you've already achieved what you want to achieve.
The original project, the one you had with the WCF test client that worked did what you needed. It is a fully fledged WCF Service. All you needed to do was right click the solution in visual studio and publish it. If you then make sure that you make an IIS virtual directory point at your solution, through the publish wizard. Then when you run your project and then browse to that url, that will give you a service to consume for testing purposes.
What you are doing at the moment, creating a WCF project, adding that DLL to a website project is fundamentally wrong: The example you followed, presumably this one :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733766.aspx
is about creating a WCF service in a web site project from scratch. Not about adding a pre-existing WCF project and hosting it.
Your essentially trying to do one thing in two different ways together.
Your current course of action is to either remove the DLL in your web project and then create the service there. Or host your current WCF service in IIS ( the project you downloaded from me or your original one)
At this point you have a hosted service. Then usually you have an application to interact wtih it. This you found using svcutil and can be done in one of two ways:
You create the console application and do "Add Service Reference" to the URL you have hosted in IIS.
Or you use SVC Util.exe point it at the url which generates a class file you include in your console / application.
I hope that clears things up about WCF and what stages to use various tools?
Edit 2
Just in case you don't get to the Chat:
I still think theres something wrong with your original project. I'm not sure what you mean by the one with the DLL either? if that means your website project with the dll of the WCF project, then no not that one.
I've taken the project I sent you earlier. I've hosed that in IIS so that when i browse to localhost/EvalService on my machine i get the standard
"EvalService Service
You have created a service.
To test this service, you will need to create a client and use it to call the service. You can do this using the svcutil.exe tool from the command line with the following syntax:"
Once I had that set up i created a console application, "added service reference" in visual studio and it consumed teh service no problem.
Try doing the above with the project I sent you and see how far you get.

Unable to reference WSDL of WCF web service hosted on AppFabric

I have developed a WCF service and, while in Visual Studio 2010, I can import the WSDL without a problem. After I've deployed it to AppFabric, I get the WSDL, but several schema files referenced internally in the WSDL cannot be found, for some reason. I don't know if it's a configuration issue, or what. The error I get when I try to process the WSDL in Visual Studio 2010 follows below:
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved:
'http://myserver.mydomain.com:9871/app_deploy/MyAppService.svc?wsdl'.
The WSDL document contains links that could not be resolved.
There was an error downloading 'http://myserver.mydomain.com:9871/app_deploy/MyAppService.svc?xsd=xsd0'.
The request failed with HTTP status 502: Proxy Error ( The
specified network name is no longer available. ).
Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved:
'http://myserver.mydomain.com:9871/app_deploy/MyAppService.svc'.
There was no endpoint listening at http://myserver.mydomain.com:9871/app_deploy/MyAppService.svc
that could accept the message. This is
often caused by an incorrect address
or SOAP action. See InnerException, if
present, for more details.
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
If the service is defined in the current solution, try building the
solution and adding the service reference again.
The error is a proxy error because it goes through a proxy, but the error is because the page isn't there. I've tried accessing http://localhost:9871/app_deploy/MyAppService.svc?xsd=xsd0 at the server, but I get 404.
Why wouldn't these xsd files being found? Is it a deployment issue?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Man, I finally found the problem here. I needed write permission on C:\Windows\Temp for Application Pool user!

Silverlight Business Application template with WCF is throwing warning

I am using the Silvelight Business Application template. I wrote a function which uses Membership.getUserList function to return the user list. I tried exposing it as Service using WCF. But when I try to compile the client side code it throws a warning saying "Client Proxy Generation for user_authentication.Web.Service1 failed'. Why does it happen?
The complete warning message is:
Warning 4 Client proxy generation for
service
'user_authentication.Web.Service1'
failed: Generating metadata files...
Warning: Unable to load a service with
configName
'user_authentication.Web.Service1'. To
export a service provide both the
assembly containing the service type
and an executable with configuration
for this service.
Details:Either none of the assemblies passed were executables
with configuration files or none of
the configuration files contained
services with the config name
'user_authentication.Web.Service1'.
Warning: No metadata files were
generated. No service contracts were
exported. To export a service, use
the /serviceName option. To export
data contracts, specify the
/dataContractOnly option. This can
sometimes occur in certain security
contexts, such as when the assembly is
loaded over a UNC network file share.
If this is the case, try copying the
assembly into a trusted environment
and running it.
Hard to say, I'm not a good enough clairvoyant yet ;-) ... Is your webservice actually already compiled, published and running? Maybe here you can find further hints:
MSDN WCF Forums: svcutil Error