WCF – The binding X does not have a configured binding named Y

A few days ago, I was dealing with an issue while writing a simple WCF REST service in .NET 3.5. One of the issues I was running into had to do with the way I had written my app.config file for the WCF service. Basically, I wanted to be able to have a REST service in WCF, so I needed to use a webHttpBinding binding for my service. In a WCF service, there are serviceBehaviors, services, endpoints for services, and bindings. Where things can get a little confusing is in the service endpoint configuration. For instance, say you had the following service defined.

<services>

  <service behaviorconfiguration="serviceBehavior" name="Services.MobileService">

    <endpoint address="" binding="webHttpBinding" bindingconfiguration="serviceBinding" contract="Services.IMobileService">

      <identity>

        <dns value="localhost">

      </dns></identity>

    </endpoint>

    <host>

      <baseaddresses>

        <add baseaddress="http://localhost:9590">

      </add></baseaddresses>

    </host>

  </service>

</services>

In the service, we define the behaviorConfiguration and bindingConfiguration to use. Where things get a little weird is line 5, where we define the binding for the endpoint. At first, I didn’t realize this was the binding type, not name or anything else like that. I had the following binding defined.

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