Can WCF RIA Services be self hosted?

Question

I know WCF can be self hosted. how about WCF RIA Services? Thanks!

Answer 1

Actually, it can be self-hosted after small configuration:

DomainServiceHost host = new DomainServiceHost(typeof(DomainService1), uri);
host.Description.Behaviors.Remove<AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsAttribute>();

Answer 2

WCF RIA Services is build on top of WCF and they get exposed as WCF services. See WCF RIA Services on MSDN.

Answer 3

According to this forum thread on MSDN, it is not possible to do such thing because RIA services set the ASP.NET compatibility to be required, therefore needing the IIS hosting.