To host your WCF service by using WAS, select Windows Communication Foundation Non-Http Activation Components on the host computer by using the <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-asci
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WAS is another alternative hosting option to IIS and self-hosted applications. Hosting in WAS shares the following similarities with hosting in IIS:
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IIS provides a robust hosting environment that you can use to host your WCF services, although IIS limits you to the HTTP protocol. You can create an IIS host project for your WCF service by using the WCF Service Application project template in Visual Studio 2008. No additional hosting code is required.
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You can host your WCF service in a Windows service. One benefit of Windows services is that you can activate and start your WCF service as soon as the system starts. The service runs silently in the background.
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To implement your own self-hosted service application, you must write code to do the following:
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You can choose from four main hosting options. The following table provides information about each option
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A typical WCF configuration file contains the four elements as the following.
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You can use the tools that are provided with Visual Studio 2008 to generate a proxy class. You can instantiate the proxy class and invoke its methods, or you can create a proxy by using the ChannelFactory class.
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A client can obtain much of the information that is required to communicate with a service by querying the service metadata. The service metadata describes the WCF service; it includes information about the operations that it exposes and the types that those operations use
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