Exposing WCF service without svc extension

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I know, this is a weird requirement, but sometimes they appear in your backlog. The story is: as company XXX I want to expose a service based on WCF in IIS without having the.svc suffix in the address. I’m actually using Castle Windsor WCF Integration to resolve my service class with castle, and it turns out that exposing a service without using standard.svc files it is just a matter of configure routing. This line of code is configuring the route of a specific name to a wcf service

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RouteTable.Routes.Add(
  new ServiceRoute("UiService", 
    new DefaultServiceHostFactory(IoC.GetContainer().Kernel), typeof(IUiService)));

This indicates to Asp.Net engine that the UiService address route actually maps to the DefaultServiceHostFactory of Castle and it will be solved by the implementation of a IUiService. Remember that you need to enable aspNetCompatibilityEnabled in your servicemodel section of web config and all the service should have the attribute

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    [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]

If you do not remember how to enable aspNetCompatibility it is just a setting in your web.config inside the ServiceModel section

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    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="True">

    </serviceHostingEnvironment>

Now your service is exposed as a simple url, ex: http://www.mysite.org/services/UiService

Gian Maria.