Question

If there is a way to specifiy a custom ServiceHost (i.e. a ServiceHost derived class) or custom ServiceHostFactory (i.e. a ServiceHostFactory derived class) via configuration?

thanks

Answer 1

Either you use IIS for hosting your WCF service – in that case, you can specify a custom service host factory (which creates your custom ServiceHost instance) in your *.svc file:

<%@ServiceHost Factory="CustomServiceHostFactory" language=c# Debug="true" 
               Service="MyService, MyServiceAssembly"  %>

or then you’re self-hosting, so you need to create the ServiceHost in your code anyway, so just use your own custom service host instead.

MyCustomServiceHost host = new MyCustomServiceHost();

// do other initialization / setup stuff
host.Open();