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Hi,<br />
I am deploying my WCF service in IIS 6.0. Usually I use XCopy to manually copy the files under the IIS folder structure, create my site and configure it.<br />
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This time around is a bit different since I am using (for the first time) Enterprise Library and am referencing the dlls into my WCF service. I've never deployed a WCF service referencing external dlls before and my thinking is that using the &quot;Web Setup&quot; template in Visual Studio will make the whole thing a lot easier. However I have tried but couldn't get the dlls to be deployed. I tried a work-around that worked (I am not actually sure it is a work-around) but I want to make sure that I am doing this the best way possible.<br />
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Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Hi,
I am deploying my WCF service in IIS 6.0. Usually I use XCopy to manually copy the files under the IIS folder structure, create my site and configure it.

This time around is a bit different since I am using (for the first time) Enterprise Library and am referencing the dlls into my WCF service. I've never deployed a WCF service referencing external dlls before and my thinking is that using the "Web Setup" template in Visual Studio will make the whole thing a lot easier. However I have tried but couldn't get the dlls to be deployed. I tried a work-around that worked (I am not actually sure it is a work-around) but I want to make sure that I am doing this the best way possible.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!

Deploy WCF in IIS 6

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.

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