Queries for WCF Service

Question

What is Self hosting and IIS hosting? Difference between Self hosting and IIS hosting? Is IIS support only HTTP protocol? Can we use multiple endpoint on webservice ?

Lakshmanan Sethu · Answer

Hi Priya http://forums.asp.net/t/1908235.aspx?Self+hosting+or+IIS+hosted+ Regarding protocols Microsoft Windows. IIS 7.5 Express supports only the HTTP and HTTPS protocols http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Information_Services

Anupam Singh · Answer

as far as I know a web service doesn't support multiple endpoins.

priya gupta · Answer

Hi Anupam  I know WCF support multiple endpoint but here I want to know is web service also support multiple endpoint . Regards Priya

Lakshmanan Sethu · Answer

Hi Anupam I agree with you. I have answered from web application set up stand point.Thanks.

Anupam Singh · Answer

Hi Lakshmanan  Apart from protocol you mentioned IIS support File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) . And Priya  WCF does support multiple endpoints.We can define different-different endpoints with different bindings.