WCF Service Host in asp.net

IIS 7 Hosting The main advantage of hosting service in IIS is that, it will automatically launch the host process when it gets the first client request. It uses the features of IIS such as process recycling, idle shutdown, process health monitoring and message based activation. The main disadvantage of using IIS is that, it will support only HTTP protocol. Let as do some hands on, to create service and host in IIS
Step 1:Start the Visual Studio 2008 and click File->New->Web Site. Select the 'WCF Service' and Location as http. This will directly host the service in IIS and click OK. (create one folder in physical location i.e D:\IISHostService next create one website in IIS and map this folder to IIS website)

Step 2: I have created sample HelloWorld service, which will accept name as input and return with 'Hello' and name. Interface and implementation of the Service is shown below.
IMyService.cs
[ServiceContract]
public interface IMyService
{
[OperationContract]
string HelloWorld(string name);
}
MyService.cs
public class MyService : IMyService
{
#region IMyService Members
public string HelloWorld(string name)
{
return "Hello " + name;
}
#endregion
}
Step 3: Service file (.svc) contains name of the service and code behind file name. This file is used to know about the service.
MyService.svc
<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="MyService" CodeBehind="~/App_Code/MyService.cs" %>
Step 4: Server side configurations are mentioned in the config file. Here I have mention only one end point which is configured to 'wsHttpBinding', we can also have multiple end point with differnet binding. Since we are going to hosted in IIS. We have to use only http binding. We will come to know more on endpoints and its configuration in later tutorial. Web.Config
<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehavior" name="MyService">
<endpoint address="http://localhost:9703/IISHostedService/MyService.svc"
binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="IMyService">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost"/>
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="ServiceBehavior">
<!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information,
set the value below to false and remove the
metadata endpoint above before deployment -->
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
<!-- To receive exception details in faults for
debugging purposes, set the value below to true.
Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>
Note:
You need to mention the service file name, along with the Address mention in the config file. IIS Screen shot

This screen will appear when we run the application.