In this screencast, I show you how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services. This is often necessary when you cannot use IIS/ASP.NET hosting for whatever reason or when you don't want to use message-based activation. In certain scenarios you want to ensure that your services are always running and that the host process won't be automatically recycled causing havoc on your underlying resources (think sockets). These are just a few of the reasons why some folks prefer this hosting technique in some cases.
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Previous WCF Screencasts (RSS for all posts in the series)
- Creating your first WCF service
- Configuring services with endpoints
- Hosting WCF services in ASP.NET/IIS
- Hosting WCF services in your own applications
- Creating your first WCF client
- Configuring service references
- Calling services asynchronously with WCF