Hosting WCF soap and rest endpoints side by side

Question

I have written a service that I would like expose both via rest and soap. Everything I read about WCF 4.0 says that I just need to expose 2 endpoints with differing behavio

Answer 1

I never found the "right" way to do this in configuration but was able to use the routing engine to accomplish this.

My global asax file now looks like this:

public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication
    {
        protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("my/soap", new ServiceHostFactory(), typeof(MyService)));
            RouteTable.Routes.Add(new ServiceRoute("my/rest", new WebServiceHostFactory(), typeof(MyService)));
        }
    }

and my config like this: (to enable the rest help pages)

I like that this is in line with the asp.net MVC model more and requires little config. Additionally doing it this way allowed me to remove the .svc files from my project entirely which is also a plus IMO.