title: What are the reasons that cause ServiceActivationException?
body: <p>I have a service which is hosted in Azure environment. i am consuming that service using a console application. While doing so, i get exception:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>"The requested service,
    '<a href="http://xxxx-d.yyyy.be/Services/zzzzInService.svc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://xxxx-d.yyyy.be/Services/zzzzInService.svc</a>'  could not be
    activated. See the server's diagnostic trace logs for more
    information."</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Can anyone help me to find what i am missing ?</p>
  
  <p>The service is defined like this - </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;service name="xxxx.AppServer.Host.Services.yyyyy.zzzzPlugInService"
     behaviorConfiguration="MetadataBehavior" xdt:Locator="XPath(//service[@name='xxxx.AppServer.Host.Services.yyyy.zzzzPlugInService'])" xdt:Transform="Replace"&gt;
  
  &lt;endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding"  bindingConfiguration="basicHttpBinding" contract="xxxx.Shared.IntegrationServices.yyyy.IzzzzPlugInService"&gt;
    &lt;identity&gt;
      &lt;dns value="localhost"/&gt;
    &lt;/identity&gt;
  &lt;/endpoint&gt;
  &lt;endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="basicHttpsBinding" contract="xxxx.Shared.IntegrationServices.yyyy.IzzzzPlugInService"&gt;
    &lt;identity&gt;
      &lt;dns value="localhost"/&gt;
    &lt;/identity&gt;
  &lt;/endpoint&gt;
  &lt;endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>When i Use the link <a href="http://xxxx-d.yyyy.be/Services/zzzzInService.svc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://xxxx-d.yyyy.be/Services/zzzzInService.svc</a> in browser i get these messsage -</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>The binding at system.serviceModel/bindings/basicHttpBinding does not
    have a configured binding named 'basicHttpBinding'. This is an invalid
    value for bindingConfiguration.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>source  :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="basicHttpBinding" contract="xxxx.Shared.IntegrationServices.zzzzz.IzzzzPlugInService"&gt;
  </code></pre>