Versioning a Service

Question

Hi

My company is needing a WCF Service that can version itself thru its App.config file.

We had thought that we could just add "/v1" to the end of each of the address lines, but when the service is run it throws an exception. Is there a way to do this? We are needing this because there will be multiple versions of the software out there after the first release.

Thank You
Earl

Mahesh Chand · Answer

You may not want to hardcode the version into the URL. Best way is to manage version from the web.config file of your service and let your service expose as a method so consumer application calls the version method before it does anything else.