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Interesting article on "Hosting and Consuming WCF Services"

WCF has been out for a while now, but I just found an interesting article (circa March 2007, revised May 2007) which talks about all of the options for hosting or supporting your service using:

  1. Self-hosting
  2. IIS as a Host
  3. Windows Service (aka., NT Service)

They took the time (via sample code) to give you everything that you need to get up and running with WCF from a hosting perspective and the examples come from the Pro WCF: Piratical Microsoft SOA Implementation, which is a pretty descent book.

Here's the link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx

~ Robert Shelton

Published Saturday, June 16, 2007 9:30 PM by Public Sector DPE Team

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# re: Interesting article on "Hosting and Consuming WCF Services"

Sunday, June 17, 2007 4:04 AM by Kris

One of the things that is missing in many WCF books is the specifics of hosting WCF services in IIS. For instance - I have a lot of ASMX based services that use the Trusted Subsystem Model (meaning only one domain account can access the Webservices and the downlevel servers). I tried migrating these services to WCF model using BasicHttpBinding and IIS Host. I have so far been unsuccessful. While self-hosting and Services hosting let the WCF runtime handle all the specifics of communication, IIS on the other hand changes things because ASP.NET runtime gets involved and how far it goes depends upon a config parameter. I would love to see someone talk about the Trusted Subsystem Model with WCF and IIS Hosting.

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