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Hi,<br />
I have just started to look at WCF for use in a new project I am working on. I have managed to build a simple WCF Service and host on my PC but now I want to address a couple of other issues. <br />
Accessing from another computer<br />
How do I make my service which will be hosted on WS 2003 available to other computers?<br />
Can I scale the solution?<br />
Rather than having 1 instance of the service running on a server can I have multiple instances running on many servers but with the client application addressing just a single address for eth service.<br />
Is using a WCF Service best for this or can IIS 7.0 , WS 2008 offer a better solution &nbsp;?<br />
I am looking or some detailed information that will enable me to take my simple WCF service and implement multiple load balanced instances of it but with the client application unaware of multiple instances.<br />
Thanks in advance for nay help<br />
Steve<br />

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Hi,
I have just started to look at WCF for use in a new project I am working on. I have managed to build a simple WCF Service and host on my PC but now I want to address a couple of other issues. 
Accessing from another computer
How do I make my service which will be hosted on WS 2003 available to other computers?
Can I scale the solution?
Rather than having 1 instance of the service running on a server can I have multiple instances running on many servers but with the client application addressing just a single address for eth service.
Is using a WCF Service best for this or can IIS 7.0 , WS 2008 offer a better solution  ?
I am looking or some detailed information that will enable me to take my simple WCF service and implement multiple load balanced instances of it but with the client application unaware of multiple instances.
Thanks in advance for nay help
Steve


WCF Service Scalability

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.

.NET application servers, a Windows Server role in an application role, includes Internet Information Services (IIS) to provide web server support, the .NET Framework to provide application support, ASP.NET to provide server side scripting, COM+ for application component communication, Message Queuing for multithreaded processing, and the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for application communication. There are also third party server systems that provide .NET support, including Mono, Base4, TNAPS and cc Devnet Data Access Server.