WCF Rest Service configuration

Using WCF REST services requires the following dependencies: (incidentally, troubleshooting this took forever. No wonder MS developers are losing out to Rails. The technology stack is so complicated, and contains so many moving parts which are poorly documented that MS is no longer a competitive technology. Hiding behind standards is no good in today’s heterogenous world.)

UrlRouting

Option 1: EndPoint and Behaviors (helpEnabled=true)

      <!-- Enable webHttp (REST) for Documents -->

Option 2: Use a ServiceHostFactory (helpEnabled=false)

References
WCF and REST