WCF facility : Metadata publishing for this service is currently disabled?

Yes, you need to make sure that service name, interface and config definitions are defined correctly. Check for mis-match in names etc. Better to define configuration from scratch rather than identifying mistakes.

The answer to this was to do it all in code.

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