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I am hosting a Net.Pipe WCF service from a forms application, which runs on a server for mostly internal calculations. To improve on this I was tasked with creating a Rest shell around this service so it becomes reachable from outside of the server. I managed to connect to this service with ease, but as soon as I drop it on the live server My rest shell can no longer connect, I tried debugging this, but the main error message that gets logged is:

The server was unable to process the request due to an internal error. For more information about the error, either turn on IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults (either from ServiceBehaviorAttribute or from the serviceDebug configuration behavior) on the server in order to send the exception information back to the client, or turn on tracing as per the Microsoft .NET Framework SDK documentation and inspect the server trace logs.

Thing is that I connect to this service from code and I cannot figure out how to either convert the way I connect to a service host so I can add the Service behavior or add the behavior to my channel factory. 

NetNamedPipeBinding binding = new NetNamedPipeBinding(NetNamedPipeSecurityMode.None);
ServiceDebugBehavior behavior = new ServiceDebugBehavior { IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults = true };
EndpointAddress ep = new EndpointAddress("net.pipe://localhost/IPCService");
ChannelFactoryfactory = new ChannelFactory<RadanWrapper.IRadanContract>(binding);

// This line doesn't work
factory.Endpoint.EndpointBehaviors.Add(behavior as IServiceBehavior);
_channel = factory.CreateChannel(ep);

So the question is either: How do I connect the behavior to the channel factory, or alternatively, how can I connect to this net.pipe service through service host. (I am still looking into the second options)

Selim Yildiz
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I found the problem, I tried adding the behavior to the rest shell (connecting end), while it should have been added to the forms application (Hosting end) that was hosting the net.Pipe WCF

ServiceHost serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(IPCService));
NetNamedPipeBinding binding = new NetNamedPipeBinding(NetNamedPipeSecurityMode.None);

// Create new behavior, remove any existing behaviors and add this new one.
var behavior = new ServiceDebugBehavior { IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults = true };
serviceHost.Description.Behaviors.Remove(typeof(ServiceDebugBehavior));
serviceHost.Description.Behaviors.Add(behavior);
serviceHost.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IPCService), binding, "net.pipe://localhost/IPCService");
serviceHost.Open();

Good thing I now got an actually working error message, turns out I was missing a specific dll that didn't get build correctly during deployment to the server.

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