Debug WCF service hosted in local IIS not working

Question

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!!

Answer 1

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.