What are the different methods for hosting a WCF service?

Question

What are the different methods for hosting a WCF service?

Answer 1

There are four general ways, all of which are well described on MSDN: WCF Service Hosting .

• Hosting in IIS .
• Hosting in WAS .
• Hosting in a Windows service .
• Hosting in the application (aka "hosting itself").

Answer 2

For now all that has been said is correct.

• IIS6 hosting only supports HTTP protocols and on-demand activation
• Hosting in IIS7 / WAS (Vista / Server 2008 and later only) supports all protocols and on-demand activation
• Self-Hosting Windows , (, , )

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Answer 3

IIS . .

Answer 4

Windows- WCF. - WCF, WCF .

From Juval Lowy book Programming WCF Services , Hosting May Be Provided

• Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
• Self-hosting in a Windows Forms application, Windows service, or console application.
• Windows Activation Service (WAS)