How to set ServiceHostingEnvironment.AspNetCompatibilityEnabled = true in Code (not in config) .NET/C#

Question

I have a requirement to access the HttpContext.Current from with-in a RESTful WCF service. I know I am able to achieve this by adding the following to config:

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Answer 1

It's an AppDomain-wide setting that you can set on the static ServiceHostingEnvironment class in System.ServiceModel:

 ServiceHostingEnvironment.AspNetCompatibilityEnabled = true;

This should be done before you create and open your service hosts.

Would have been nice - but it's a read-only setting, and the only way to set it appears to be through configuration :-(