Hosting a service in Windows Service
Windows Services are widely used on Windows operating systems for hosting applications that will perform some long-run or scheduled tasks in the background. Applications hosted via Windows Service can be running under a specific user account and can choose the startup mode (manually or automatically). As a popular service-application-hosting scenario, it is also quite common to deploy a WCF service as a Windows Service.
How to do it...
In this recipe, we will use a typical .NET-based Windows Service to demonstrate how to host a WCF service in a Windows Service application. Let's go through the detailed steps:
Create a Windows Service project.
The first step is to create a new Windows Service project through the Visual Studio IDE. When creating the project, we simply choose the Windows Service project type. The following screenshot shows how we can select the Windows Service project type in the Visual Studio New Project wizard.
Add a new WCF service item...
