Relationship between SVC files and WCF projects?

Question

When creating a WCF project, the default member files are just ordinary csharp class files, rather than svc files. Are svc files required with a WCF project? When should they be

Answer 1

If you are using .net 4.0 or later, you can now "simulate" the .svc via config with the following:

Then you don't need a physical .svc file nor a global.asax