Hi all.I thought consuming a WCF service (named pipe) hosted in a Windows service on the Web server (2k3) would be a good idea. It worked well enough when debugging in VS2008, but there my user ...

Building the Service I did my testing with a WCF Service Application Project. To take advantage of IIS's support for WebSockets that I'd just finished configuring, I went to the Web tab of my Project ...

If you are hosting your WCF service in IIS or in a Windows Service, you should use the least privileged account. Note that it is a recommended practice to host your WCF service in IIS.

Peter introduces WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets first by describing why you care and then by setting up to build a bi-directional service using Windows Server 8, and Visual Studio 11.