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Asked: 2026-05-30T12:00:15+00:00

We are running WCF services with net.tcp bindings in IIS 7.5, so we make

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We are running WCF services with net.tcp bindings in IIS 7.5, so we make use of non-HTTP activations and WAS Hosting. We are have created a custom service host factory for each service, which is derived from AutofacServiceHostFactory

I was recently doing some maintenance on the services (switching to use NuGet packages upgrading to the latest versions, etc). I happened to notice that the wiki article for WCF Integration recommends using an override of CreateServiceHost(string constructorString, Uri[] baseAddresses) and building up the container there before calling the base implementation.

Our ServiceHostFactories have been using a static constructor to do the same thing. I’m wondering if I should switch. Is there a reason a static constructor is a bad idea? If using the overrides, we need to override any of the other overloads for CreateServiceHost().

Thanks for the help!

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  1. Editorial Team

    It appears that the recommendation has changed again to use the AppStart.AppInitialize() to register the dependencies and build the container in a protocol agnostic faction. That’s what we’re doing now.

    Autofac Wiki

    Referenced article

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