http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/06/17/acting-on-open.aspxHow do I run a custom event once when the service is first started? The easiest way to execute some custom code when a service is started is to hook the service's Open method. Although the Open method has two different moments in time that you might beenCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/06/17/acting-on-open.aspx#8611842Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:29:31 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8611842Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog<p>The XmlSerializer is one of the options WCF provides for mapping between XML and strongly-typed objects.</p>