Hosting a WCF endpoint with programatic settings in IIS

Question

I need to host a WCF service in IIS that exposes a wsHttpBinding. That part is working nicely using the settings of system.serviceModel in my web.config.

What i need now is to setup the configuration (like maxReceivedMessageSize and other options) through a configuration assembly that is also used by the client(s).

How is this possible? I see no handles in my .svc file like in my client to overload binding configuration. I suspect this is because it is automaticly handled by ISS when the application starts up as in contrast to a windows service where you have to manually declare the client/channel.

Am i right about this? And would the solution to his problem (if i still want hosting inside IIS) to remove all configuration and instead create a HttpHandler that takes care of the hosting on startup?

If i'm right i guess i just wasted a whole lot of space writing this, but i can't help thinking i'm missing something.

Answer 1

You're missing something :)

Create a custom ServiceHost and use that in the .svc file; in the custom service host do all your configuration