Windows 2008R2 Server prerequisites to host WCF data services

Question

I have made a WCF data service and a test client which both run fine on my local machine. The service is hosted on the local IIS on my machine.

Now I'm trying to setup a remote win 2008 R2 server to host the wcf data service, and this is where I run into trouble.

I have first tried to install "WCF Data Services 5.0 for OData V3" from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29306

But I get a "0x80070643 Fatal error during installation"-during installation. I have the log file if that helps.

Now I'm thinking, is it because I need to install "http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Data.Services" on the server? I know I did this on my local machine. However this would require me to install Powershell, Visual Studio and NuGet on the server. Is this necessary to get things to work?

Answer 1

If you're using the NuGet packages in your project, then the easiest way is to bin-deploy the WCF DS runtime assemblies. More details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astoriateam/archive/2012/08/29/odata-101-bin-deploying-wcf-data-services.aspx