25.13. Hosting the WCF Service within a Windows Service
Hosting a WCF service from within a console application (or within a GUI desktop application, for that matter) is not an ideal choice for a production-level server, given that the host must remain running visibly in the background to service clients. Even if you were to minimize the hosting application to the Windows taskbar, it would still be far too easy to accidentally shut down the host, thereby terminating the connection with any client applications.
NOTE
While it is true that a desktop Windows application does not have to show a main window, a typical *.exe does require user interaction to load the executable. However, you can configure a Windows service (described next) to run even ...
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