Developing a WCF Service Library and Hosting it as WCF Web Service Using VS2K8 - Deploying and Hosting a WCF Service application (WCF web service)
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Once the solution is built successfully, we need to deploy/host it on IIS. Let us start with creating a Virtual Directory in IIS to host our solution. Go through the following steps to create the same in the simplest manner:
- Go to the application folder (not the solution folder), right click on it and then click on "Properties" (fig 05).
- Switch to the "Security" tab and make sure that all privileges are provided for both the "ASP.NET machine account" and the "NETWORK SERVICE" accounts (fig 06).
- Switch to "Web Sharing" and click on "Share this folder" (fig 07).
- Accept the "default alias" ("WCFSampleService") as follows (fig 08) and click OK twice (to apply all the properties).
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Deploying and Hosting WCF Service application (WCF web service), continued
Open IIS (Start || Administrative Tools || Internet Information Services Manager), and then open "Default Web Site." You should see the "WCFSampleService" configured as a web application.
- Right click on "WCFSampleService" and go to "Properties" (fig 09).
- Switch to the "ASP.NET" tab and select the ASP.NET version "2.0.50727" (fig 10).
- Switch to "Directory Security," click on "Edit" of "Authentication and Access control," make "Enable anonymous access" checked (fig 11) and click OK twice to apply all the properties.
- If the solution is configured, built and hosted properly, you should be able to access the web service from the URL http://localhost/WCFSampleService/EmpService.svc and the output should look like the following (fig 12).
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