How to host net named pipe binding enabled wcf application in iis?

.net wcf wcf-binding named-pipes netnamedpipebinding
ARULJOTHI PARTHIBAN picture ARULJOTHI PARTHIBAN · Sep 11, 2012 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

I have a following configuration in my wcf service

    <endpoint address="" binding="netNamedPipeBinding" 
          contract="WcfWithNamedPipe.IService1" 
          bindingConfiguration="WcfWithNamedPipe.netNamedPipeBinding">
    </endpoint>

can any one suggest me how to host this wcf service in iis using netNamedPipe binding?

Answer

Shiraz Bhaiji picture Shiraz Bhaiji · Sep 11, 2012

To get Named pipes to work on IIS you must enable Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) on IIS and configure the site that you are using to allow named pipes.

For details see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752253.aspx

Like Cybermax says in the comment it is a good idea to get it to work with basic http binding first.

If you get to the point where you think that you have setup everything correctly and it still does not work, check the firewall settings.

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