Can several WCF services share a common BaseAddress?

Question

I\'ve got an assembly containing several WCF services, each with its own contract. It all works nicely. The service config in the app.config for the service looks like this:

Answer 1

You can also set the base addresses in code if you use a custom ServiceHostFactory.

In config you can have some app setting:

Then make a custom ServiceHostFactory:

public sealed class MyServiceHostFactory : ServiceHostFactory
{
    protected override ServiceHost CreateServiceHost(Type serviceType, Uri[] baseAddresses)
    {
        var baseAddy = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["BaseAddress"];
        baseAddresses.Add(new Uri(baseAddy));
        return new ServiceHost(serviceType, baseAddresses);
    }

}

Then you also have to change your .svc files to use that factory:

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="MyApp.MyService" CodeBehind="MyService.svc.cs" Factory="MyApp.MyServiceHostFactory" %>