WCF Service Tutorial question

[Mike Pliam]

OK. Just pasted the path in a new User Environment variable. But still have a problem with VISTA.

Ran the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 tool Command Prompt as 'Administrator' (with Administrator privileges). But something is amiss.

C:\Users\mbpliam\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\SERVICES\Service\Client>s
vcutil.exe /language:cs /out:generatedProxy.cs /config:app.config http://localho
st:8000/ServiceModelSamples/service
Microsoft (R) Service Model Metadata Tool
[Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Communication Foundation, Version 3.0.4506.648]
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Attempting to download metadata from 'http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/
service' using WS-Metadata Exchange or DISCO.
Microsoft (R) Service Model Metadata Tool
[Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Communication Foundation, Version 3.0.4506.648]
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/ser
vice

If this is a Windows (R) Communication Foundation service to which you have acce
ss, please check that you have enabled metadata publishing at the specified addr
ess.  For help enabling metadata publishing, please refer to the MSDN documentat
ion at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.


WS-Metadata Exchange Error
    URI: http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/service

    Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'http://localhost:800
0/ServiceModelSamples/service'.

    Could not connect to http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/service. TCP
error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine activel
y refused it 127.0.0.1:8000.

    Unable to connect to the remote server

    No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 1
27.0.0.1:8000


HTTP GET Error
    URI: http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/service

    There was an error downloading 'http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/se
rvice'.

    Unable to connect to the remote server

    No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 1
27.0.0.1:8000

If you would like more help, type "svcutil /?"

C:\Users\mbpliam\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\SERVICES\Service\Client>

Any idea what I have done wrong?

Edit: Sorry! I forgot that I had to run the service before attempting to use svcutil.exe. Of course, everything has to be Run as Administrator on VISTA. Then it worked just as M$ said it would. Looks like this whent it works, and generates an app.config and generatedProxy.cs files

C:\Users\mbpliam\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\SERVICES\Service\Client>s
vcutil.exe /language:cs /out:generatedProxy.cs /config:app.config http://localho
st:8000/ServiceModelSamples/service
Microsoft (R) Service Model Metadata Tool
[Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Communication Foundation, Version 3.0.4506.648]
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Attempting to download metadata from 'http://localhost:8000/ServiceModelSamples/
service' using WS-Metadata Exchange or DISCO.
Generating files...
C:\Users\mbpliam\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\SERVICES\Service\Client\g
eneratedProxy.cs
C:\Users\mbpliam\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\SERVICES\Service\Client\a
pp.config

I only post all this here in case it might help some others because there are alot of negative Community Responses on this tutorial (which is actually quite good provided one reads it carefully and follows the instructions).