Hosting a WCF service

A WCF service can be hosted in following ways

1. Self Hosting: 
       A WCF service can be self hosted using console application or windows forms.

        Benifit

1.         Support all bindings.
2.         Easy to debug no need to attach separate process
3.         Flexi to support the life time of binding using Open() and Close method of service.

2. Hosting can be done using Window Service. --

Advantage
          Support all types of bindings
          In this type you can debug WCF  by attaching the WCF to Client

Disadvantage
  Difficult to Debug ( need to attach window service to client for debugging)
  Need to host on production server


3. Third way is hosting a WCF using IIS but in this support only HTTP binding it does not support Non HTTP Binding.
4. Using Window Activation Services, it supports all types of binding.