Why does it matter which order settings are in app.config?

I don't think the order matters! I've developed a lot of WCF services and have never seen such behavior...

The order only matters when it comes to service or endpoint configurations and you are not naming the configuration to use. In that case WCF will use the top matching configuration.

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