How can I deploy my WCF Service without IIS?

Question

I\'m doing some quick Java-.NET interop and have decided on POX with WCF. However, I don\'t want to -- nor have access to -- deploy to IIS.

Would just wrapping it

Answer 1

If you're already comfortable writing Windows Services, then that's probably your best bet. I believe that WCF itself handles the HTTP stuff outside of IIS.

Michele Bustamante has a tutorial on setting up Windows Services in her excellent "Learning WCF" book.

This article covers different ways to host WCF services. It mentions VS2005, but VS2008 is similar enough that you should be able to follow along.

Answer 2

You can deploy it as Windows service and expose an http endpoint. Check the following url.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751414.aspx