What are the Possible Ways of Hosting a WCF Service

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Hi What are the possible ways of hosting a WCF service ?

RanjithKumar chiguruvada · Answer

Hi There are 3 ways of hosting a wcf service.that are 1)using IIS 2)using SelfHosting 3)using WAS Hosting in IIS6 only support HTTP protocols and on-demand activation Hosting in IIS7 / WAS (only on Vista / Server 2008 and up) supports all protocols and on-demand activation Self-Hosting in a console app or Windows service supports all protocols but doesn't support on-demand activation (e.g. your service must be up and running all the time it cannot be magically activated when a request comes in) Worth reading and very useful article  Hosting and Consuming WCF Services  found on MSDN

nallya · Answer

There are four common ways all of which are outlined nicely on MSDN: Hosting WCF Services . Hosting in IIS . Hosting in WAS . Hosting in a Windows service . Hosting in an application (aka self-hosting). refer this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx