WCF Tutorial

Part 23 Hosting WCF service

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In this video we will discuss different options that are available for hosting a WCF service.

For a WCF service to be available for the clients to consume, we need to host the WCF service. The following are the different WCF service hosting options.
Self-hosting – A WCF service can be self-hosted using a console application or a winforms application.
Windows Service – Hosting using a windows service
Internet Information Services (IIS) – Hosting within IIS supports only HTTP bindings. Out of the box, NON HTTP bindings are not supported.
Windows Activation Services (WAS) – Hosting a WCF service using IIS7 with WAS supports all bindings including the NON-HTTP bindings such as TCP, MSMQ etc.

In our upcoming videos we will discuss each hosting option in detail with their advantages and disadvantages.