Enabling WCF on Win7

By default IIS is not installed on Win7 (if you are developing ASP.NET applications. You will need to go into the Control Panel, then go to “Turn Windows features on or off” then select “Internet Information Services” then Ok.

I then ran my web app that included a WCF service and the service didn’t work. I went into IIS manager and no where was .svc mapped. I also could not find a way anywhere in the configuration setup to turn this on (as in previous versions). I then found out I needed to go back into the Windows features and add this capability as seen below:

I hope this saves you some trouble.