thank you JORIS DG For those of you who have read my post on the Windows Azure App , may recall my shortcut for fixing the missing bindings and other app.config settings. I've been meaning to dig into this further and come to a solution, but for the Azure post being constrained by my promised " 10-minute app " I stuck with the ugly solution. Recently I was talking with the MSDN team about AIF related articles they are wanting to do, and I brought up this issue. They pointed out they had not seen this issue and asked if I had followed the whitepaper on consuming webservices . Now, there's not necessarily a lot to it, but in looking over the whitepaper I found one tiny little thing, which makes a world of difference and solves my issue: AIFUtil class! This sparked the idea of doing a follow-up on this, and due to a late night conversation on Twitter related to this I figured I really need to get this on my blog. The issue as I'm about to explain ...