How to publish a Web Service from Visual Studio into IIS

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I have written a WCF web service in C   I had originally self-hosted it and then decided to host it on IIS running locally on my PC  While the service is working  there are several aspects of the deployment process that I don t understand   Firstly  the URL of this service when hosted in IIS does not correspond to what I specified in my web config  I had specified  http   localhost 8000 MyServices OrderService  there and this was used when I self-hosted  Now that I ve deployed to IIS  the URL has become  http   localhost MyServices OrderService   Why is the URL not picked up from my config file   Secondly  to host the Web Service  I created a new web site within IIS  in addition to the existing  Default Web Site    I set the physical path to c  inetpub wwwroot  no idea if this is correct  and left the other parameters as default  I then copied my  bin folder  my  svc file and my web config to this folder  Is this the equivalent of a  Virtual Directory    Finally  the service didn t work until  within IIS  I selected  Convert to application   Why is it necessary to select  Convert to application    Can anyone explain what the correct procedure is to publish a simple web service from Visual Studio into IIS  or point me at some good documentation so I can understand the process       EDIT TO ORIGINAL      Having spent more time looking into this  I have found the following    When I create a web site in IIS  I give it a physical directory of c  inetpub wwwroot    etc If I then  publish  from within Visual studio  all it s doing is copying all the required filed  like the  bin directory  web config and  svc file  into the physical directory of the website i e  - c  inetpub wwwroot      You can perform the copy manually to the same affect    Lastly  with regard to the URL of my service not corresponding to the baseAddress section of my web config file  this has been answered on stackoverflow previously    The answer is that the baseAddress is completely ignored when hosting on IIS

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If using Visual Studio 2010 you can right-click on the project for the service  and select properties  Then select the Web tab  Under the Servers section you can configure the URL  There is also a button to create the virtual directory

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