Which WCF template to be used?

Recently, one of my colleague asked me, which WCF template should I use to create a service? For experienced people, it may be a silly question, but it is one of the common question among beginners, who just entered into the world of services. That’s the motivation who made me write this small post.

Well, let’s first have a look at what all templates are available in Visual Studio 2015 for WCF: 

The developer can choose any of the above templates as per project need. Let’s go through them one-by-one.

WCF Service Library: This template is nothing but a simple service library which uses App.config as its configuration file.

WCF Service Application: This template will create a web site which in turn will be hosting a service in it. Here Web.Config will be used to serve configuration settings.

WCF Workflow Service Application: This template is useful when you want your workflow to be accessed as a web service.

Syndication service Library: This template is useful when you want to expose RSS as a web service.

Hope now you are comfortable on which template to be chosen.Happy learning!