Step by step to learn the basic terms of the WCF series-Hosting (III)

Hosting)

.You can't just create the WCF Service. You have to place it in one place and let everyone access and call it. It's like you have to have a store to sell it, you can't place it on the road. Anyone who wants to drink it can come to your store to eat it. Therefore, there must be a place for WCF to store it. We call it hosting.

Host Process)

.Each WCF Service must be hosted in a Windows process. This process is called a host process.

Three managed Methods

.The host can be provided by IIS, or by Windows Activation Service (WAS) of Windows Vista ), the host can also be provided by developers as part of an application (called self-managed)