When looking at a problem posted at the WCF forums ( http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=118&SiteID=1 ), I usually try to set up a local reproduction of the issue to understand what is going on. One thing that helps me the most...

There are some service settings which cannot be defined via config, only via code. If the service is hosted in a stand-alone application (via the ServiceHost class), this is not a problem - the host object is available, and from there one could use the...