I found out today that, if you go to Help >> Troubleshooting in VS2010 (SP1), you’ll get lots of cool performance recommendations. You can also see these at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff716700
I’m not the first to post this, by any means. However, you can try Azure for 30 days, free of charge. Details are at http://bit.ly/CRAzurePass. You’ll need to use promotion code DPCE01 (that’s a “zero” not an “o”).
WCF services under Azure have a nasty habit of not really telling you what you need to know. Having fought through this – and having been challenged to find exactly what I needed in a Google search, I thought I’d add some more specific info here. Before I do, let me say thanks to Steve Marx, whose blog posts and forum answers pointed me in the right direction. Here are the exceptions that surfaced: ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not create Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diag... ......