After posting about using TCP with the .Net Service Bus and making it look sooooo simple, I’ve lost most of today trying to get the fracking thing working!  I doesn’t matter what I do in the config, the service host keeps prompting me for a Card (from CardSpace) even though I had everything setup for UserNamePassword creds.

After much stuffing around I noticed that my solution had the wrong version of the service bus DLL (0.15.0.0 – March CTP I think).  This was my bad – I had copied the DLL to a solution folder.  So I grabbed the '”new” version (0.16.7.0) from the July CTP Assemblies folder and tried that.

Same result!  Arg!

Looking in the GAC I could see it had version 0.16.0.0.  What the ?!!

Time for a reinstall me think.

Download from MS.  Install. Chug chug….

Ok, now I have version 0.16.71.1.  Right. Fine.

But the GAC still has 0.16.0.0 and my app still is broked.  Lord - give me strength!

I re-added the project assembly reference to my local non gac copy and set copy local and now it all works again.

I can’t delete the old version from the GAC without uninstalling the SDK completely so it will have to stay there.

Weird!  The Joy of CTP.