Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
by Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria, Amit Bahree, Nishith Pathak
Exploring Your Hosting Options
On the Microsoft .NET platform, you have several types of managed Windows applications that you can create with Visual Studio .NET:
WinForms applications
Console applications
Windows services
Web applications (ASP.NET) hosted on Internet Information Services (IIS)
WCF services inside IIS 7.0 and WAS on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2007
If you look through the project templates that come with Visual Studio 2005, you will find other options available at your disposal. For obvious reasons, we don't consider any of the other templates to be viable options to use in the services world. It is worth noting, however, that WCF doesn't block you from running your service in any other type of application as long as it provides ...
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