I've build a small sample WCF server (.exe). I'm using app.config to set it up. When I start the application, I receive multiple first chance exception: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException occurred Message="This element is not currently associated with any context" Source="System.Configuration" BareMessage="This element is not currently associated with any context" Line=0 StackTrace: at System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement.get_EvaluationContext() InnerException: My app.config is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <system.serviceModel> <services> <service name="Zetec.Core.MessagingService" behaviorConfiguration="MessagingServiceBehavior"> <host> <baseAddresses> <add baseAddress="http://localhost:14899/ServiceModelSamples/Service"/> </baseAddresses> </host> <endpoint address="MessagingService" binding="wsDualHttpBinding" contract="Zetec.Core.IMessagingService" /> <endpoint address="net.pipe://localhost/servicemodelsamples/service/MessagingService" binding="netNamedPipeBinding" contract="Zetec.Core.IMessagingService" /> </service> </services> <!--For debugging purposes set the includeExceptionDetailInFaults attribute to true--> <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name="MessagingServiceBehavior"> <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/> <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" /> </behavior> </serviceBehaviors> </behaviors> </system.serviceModel> </configuration> The exception does not contain any information to help me debug this. I have 2 questions: - What is the error in my app.config? - How do you debug this kind of exception? I don't have any clue where to look for. Thank in advance -- Stephane Guerin