WCF Windows Activation Service Hosting
Windows Activation service is a system service available with Windows vista and windows server 2008. It is available with IIS 7.0 and it is more powerful compared to IIS 6.0 because it supports Http, TCP and named pipes were IIS 6.0 supports only Http. It can be installed and configured separately. Hosting WCF in Activation service takes many advantages such as process recycling, isolation, idle time management and common configuration system. WAS hosted service can be created using following steps Enable WCF for non-http protocols Create WAS hosted service Enable different binding to the hosted service Enable WCF for non-http protocols Before Start creating the service we need to configure the system to support WAS. Following are the step to configure WAS. Click Start -> Control Panel -> programs and Features and click 'Turn Windows Components On or Off' in left pane. Expand 'Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0' and enable "Windows Communication F...