WCF Service Publishing and Fileless Activation : still create a .svc file

Question

Using Visual Studio 2012, I have created a WCF 4.5 Service Library. When the service is published to my local IIS, despite the serviceActivations section in the configuration file, a .svc file is still created.

I'm also using a custom factory in the configuration file, which, fortunately, isn't lost because serviceActivations overrides .svc files.

The configuration file look like this :

<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="false" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true">
  <serviceActivations>
    <add factory="My.ServiceHostFactory" relativeAddress="~/BirtProxy.SoapReport.svc" service="BirtProxy.SoapReport" />
  </serviceActivations>
</serviceHostingEnvironment>

The .svc file that is created is like this :

<%@ ServiceHost Service="BirtProxy.SoapReport" %>

I have several other services where I don't have this behavior, but I can't figure out what's wrong. I don't want this additional file to be created.

Any Help appreciated.

Answer 1

The .svc file is created because the service isn't declared in the configuration node. As soon as I've added the service, the file creation is gone.