Introduction

Service hosting and configuration is very important for building WCF services, especially at the service deployment stage. After developers complete the service development, we will need to deploy the service so as to make it available to all the client consumers. In the real world, there are various service deployment scenarios available, which will result in different deployment and configuration requirements on the service configuration or the hosting environment.

As an enhanced service development platform, WCF provides rich, built-in support on service hosting and configuration that can fulfill most of the existing deployment demands and requirements. For example, the most popular IIS hosting approach can provide high availability and stable service for local intranet or public internet-based deployment cases. The Windows service-hosting approach makes WCF service hosting easier to integrate with existing background scheduled tasks, and the self-hosting approach provides...