Hi all.I thought consuming a WCF service (named pipe) hosted in a Windows service on the Web server (2k3) would be a good idea. It worked well enough when debugging in VS2008, but there my user ...

Peter introduces WCF 4.5's support for WebSockets first by describing why you care and then by setting up to build a bi-directional service using Windows Server 8, and Visual Studio 11.

If you are hosting your WCF service in IIS or in a Windows Service, you should use the least privileged account. Note that it is a recommended practice to host your WCF service in IIS.

Building the Service I did my testing with a WCF Service Application Project. To take advantage of IIS's support for WebSockets that I'd just finished configuring, I went to the Web tab of my Project ...