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I'm trying to upgrade a WCF web service from .NET 3.0 to 4. I've run

Aspnet_regiis.exe

and

ServiceModelReg.exe

As well as changed the Application Pool to use v4.0. I rebuilt the service dll with .NET 4.0 as the target and moved it to the /bin directory on my site.

I'm running into an error that is driving me nuts. Whenever I try to hit the site, I get the following error:

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

The configuration section 'system.serviceModel' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

I've tried solutions I've found from googling and nothing is working. I feel like someone more experienced with IIS 7 would know exactly what's wrong. Can anyone help with this issue

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I found the problem. I needed to install the hotfix described here, which is step 3 in the "One-time setup procedure for WCF samples" for these WCF code samples.

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Try aspnet_regiis.exe /iru

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Some things you could check:

  1. Did you change the WCF references in your application to the Framework 4.0 versions?

  2. Here's a Microsoft support article: Error message after you install the .NET Framework 4.0: "Could not load type 'System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpModule'":

    This issue occurs because the Applicationhost.config file for Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) has the following section defined, and this section is incompatible with the .NET Framework 4.0 [...]

  3. .svc: ensure that IIS and WCF are correctly installed and registered: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751792.aspx

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  • I'm trying to do #3, but ".net framework 4 components" does not show up under add windows components.
    – Brian
    Jul 6, 2010 at 15:11
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Make sure WCF HTTP Activation feature is installed in Server Roles/Features (it will be the 3.5 version), then re-install .NET Framework 4.0. (You will have to install it from the download, its not part of Windows components/features)

If you're lucky, that should re-register the scriptmaps in such a way that .NET 4 will successfully receive WAS HTTP Activation requests from IIS instead of bypassign to 3.5 which doesnt understand what its being asked to do.

In theory, aspnet_regiis /i from the .NET Framework 4.0 directory should do this as well, but you said you already tried that.

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