Manually deploying .NET Services Service Bus-enabled applications

If your application is using the Service Bus features from the .NET Services offerings in the Azure Services platform then you are most likely using config settings for certain relay bindings and the like.
When you want to deploy your application to other machines - especially to web sites hosted with an ISP - you need to make sure that all the config entries are valid and thus need to make sure that all binding and binding elements and behavior extensions as well as policy and WSDL importers are registered. This is usually done by running either the .NET Services SDK installer or the .NET Services Redist installer. Both will add the necessary config section entries to your machine.config file.

But when hosting your web app you most probably just have access to the ISP's space via an FTP connection. No problem: just add the necessary registrations in your app.config or web.config. This is kind of a template for the current .NET Services build which you can add to your config file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel>    
    <extensions>
      <behaviorExtensions>
        <add name="connectionStatusBehavior" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.ConnectionStatusElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="transportClientEndpointBehavior" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.TransportClientEndpointBehaviorElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
      </behaviorExtensions>
      <bindingElementExtensions>
        <add name="tcpRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.TcpRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="httpRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.HttpRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="httpsRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.HttpsRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="onewayRelayTransport" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.OnewayRelayTransportElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
      </bindingElementExtensions>
      <bindingExtensions>
        <add name="basicHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.BasicHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="basicHttpRelayContextBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.BasicHttpRelayContextBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="webHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WebHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="wsHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WSHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="wsHttpRelayContextBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WSHttpRelayContextBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="ws2007HttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WS2007HttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="ws2007FederationHttpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.WS2007FederationHttpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="netTcpRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetTcpRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="netTcpRelayContextBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetTcpRelayContextBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="netOnewayRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetOnewayRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        <add name="netEventRelayBinding" type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Configuration.NetEventRelayBindingCollectionElement, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
      </bindingExtensions>
    </extensions>
   
    <client>
      <metadata>
        <policyImporters>
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.TcpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.HttpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.OnewayRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        </policyImporters>
        <wsdlImporters>
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.StandardRelayBindingImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.TcpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.HttpRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
          <extension type="Microsoft.ServiceBus.Description.OnewayRelayTransportBindingElementImporter, Microsoft.ServiceBus, Version=0.15.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" />
        </wsdlImporters>
      </metadata>
    </client>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

The rest is easy then. Just add your service and client configuration as you need. Obviously the .NET Services DLLs (which can be found in the SDK) need to be in the web project’s bin folder and the project needs to reference them.
Done.