sharepoint - deploy web service without creating a virtual directory

Question

I have a wcf web service and want to deploy that to my sharepoint solution.

in IIS I have created a virtual directory that points to the webservice in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80_wcf. the web service was copied across from the 12 hive to this directory.

is there a nicer way of just deploying the web service and not having to do any of this stuff of copying across web services (.svc + web.config files)...and creating a virtual directory etc..

Answer 1

This guide for web services on sharepoint should be a good start. You may want to make the solution into a wsp for deployment and use the activate/deactivate feature code to add/remove your wcf configuartion entries to the sharepoint web.config.