WCF Service in Sharepoint 2010 can't find my Custom ServiceHostFactory class

Question

I made a great WCF service in my dev environment, then when I pushed it up to production I got various errors saying "This collection already contains an address with scheme http..."

So, I created a Custom ServiceHostFactory class for my service.

Now when I upload it I get:

The CLR Type 'WCFServices.MultipleHostFactory' could not be loaded during service compilation. Verify that this type is either defined in a source file located in the application's \\App_Code directory, contained in a compiled assembly located in the application's \\bin directory, or present in an assembly installed in the Global Assembly Cache. Note that the type name is case-sensitive and that the directories such as \\App_Code and \\bin must be located in the application's root directory and cannot be nested in subdirectories.

I checked the GAC and my assembly is indeed there.

Can anyone explain why this error is occuring?

Again, I am using .NET 3.5 on Sharepoint 2010

Answer 1

Is it "WCFServices.MultipleHostFactory" or "WCFServices.MultipleHostsFactory"? If its the first, thats why because that namespace does not match that you said in your question.

Answer 2

It turns out that I was able to remove one of the bindings from the application host configuration file. After talking with the administrator, I found that he had two bindings for port 80. One was IP:80:[DNS name] and the other was :80:

We agreed to get rid of the :80: binding and the WCF service was able to deploy to SP.

If anyone ever runs into that CLR loading issue, please post with a solution. I still don't have a good explanation for that problem.