What are the possible ways of hosting a WCF service?

To host WCF service, you need at least a managed process, a ServiceHost instance and an Endpoint configured.

Possible approaches for hosting a service are:

• Hosting in a Managed Application/ Self Hosting

1. Console Application
2. Windows Application
3. Windows Service

• Hosting on Web Server

1. IIS 6.0 ( ASP.NET application supports only HTTP )
2. Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) i.e. IIS 7.0 supports HTTP, TCP/IP, NamedPipes, MSMQ