Question

Is there a way to do this globally, automatically for all my WCF services via configuration in WCF 4.0?

That is, I know WCF 4.0 exposes new configuration techniques that applies certain behaviors by default to all hosted endpoints, and that you don’t need to explicitly specify individual endpoints by config anymore…but can I do something in the config that says to automatically host all services with both a BasicHttpBinding and a WebHttpBinding (using a /web relative address for the WebHttpBinding)? Or do I still need to use a custom ServiceHostFactory for this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

See the Developer’s Introduction to WCF 4 for lots of interesting stuff in WCF 4.

One of the new features is called default protocol mapping, and this combined with the default endpoints provided by WCF 4 might solve your problem.

Default endpoints means that WCF 4 will provide one endpoint for each contract your service class implements (typically only 1), and for each base address defined in your config (or code for the ServiceHost).

In order to make sure a http:// endpoint gets exposed automagically with the webHttpBinding, you also need to override the system default (which is basicHttpBinding) – which you can do thanks to the protocol mappings.

<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <protocolMapping>
      <add scheme="http" binding="webHttpBinding"/>
    </protocolMapping>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>