Hosting a WCF service inside an ASP.NET MVC project

Adding a WCF service to an ASP.NET MVC project, just choose Add new item and choose the WCF Service item. However when you try to connect to your WCF service(e.g. http://localhost:8000/sampleservice.svc), you’ll end up with the following exception:

“Resource not found”

The WCF service URL interferes with the default MVC routing so instead of loading up the WCF service, the ASP.NET MVC framework tries to find a matching controller and action.

To fix this, extend the routing with 2 extra ignores:

	public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
	{
	routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
	//Extra ignores to support WCF in ASP.NET MVC
	routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.svc/{*pathInfo}");
	routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.svc");
	routes.MapRoute(
	name: "Default",
	url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
	defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
	);
	}

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