Does OWin support WCF?

Question

I have a c# project that exposes services via WebApi and also via WCF. It works under IIS. Now I need to offer it as self host solution. I cannot find documentation about Owin and how to expose WCF services. Does OWin support WCF?

Answer 1

I think the question should be the other way around. Does WCF support OWIN?

As I understand, OWIN offers the infrastructure needed to abstract away the web server. However, whatever framework you want to use on it must have an OWIN implementation, which I think WCF does not.

Nonetheless, you can still offer a self hosted application using OWIN or WebApi SelfHost for WebApi combining with a Self Hosted solution for the WCF as described in the documentation for WCF -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee939340.aspx

Answer 2

WCF is not supported on OWIN at this point of time. Owin.org > Projects has information on the supported frameworks on OWIN.