The unified

framework for
rapidly building
service-oriented
Applications
0 Web host with in IIS:
0  For HTTP services on Windows XP® SP2 & WS2K3
 For any service on Windows Vista® and Windows
Server® “Longhorn”
 Proven reliability, scalability, and security
 Requires a .svc file to identify the Service Type
0 Self-Host within any .NET process:

 Available for any service

 Console apps, windowed apps, .NET NT Services …
 All about Contracts
0 Service Contract: Describes the operations a
service can perform. Maps CLR types to WSDL.

0 Data Contract: Describes a data structure.

Maps CLR types to XSD.

0 Message Contract: Defines the structure of the

message on the wire. Maps CLR types to SOAP
messages.
 Hosting Services in
ASP.NET
0 Write your service as usual:
 [ServiceContract]
 [OperationContract] etc.
0 ServiceHost’s are represented as .svc files:
 <% @ServiceHost Service=“HelloService” %>
0 Service attribute is a CLR type name
0 Matches <service name=“xxx”> from
web.config