How to Create a Reusable WCF Service Host for Windows Services and ...

In this article, I'll show you how to create a reusable service host that can be run from either from the console (self-hosted) or installed as a Windows service. I'll also demonstrate how to use a configuration file instead of code to control which WCF services the host starts. Finally, I'll show how you can make the Windows service installer flexible to allow you to run multiple versions of the service on the same machine. Before getting into implementation details, I'd like to share my motivations behind this solution.