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If you’re hosting your WCF “Web” services in IIS/ASP.NET,
it’s also a good idea to enable the ASP.NET compatibility mode within the WCF
runtime. Doing so makes it possible for you to access the HttpContext object
managed by ASP.NET from within your WCF methods. You enable ASP.NET
compatibility by adding the following global flag to your Web.config file:

<configuration>

   <system.serviceModel>

    
 <serviceHostingEnvironment
aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true"/>

   </system.serviceModel>

</configuration>

Then, you’ll also want to declare on your service class
whether you allow, require, or don’t allow ASP.NET compatibility mode as
illustrated here:

[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode =


   
AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)]

[ServiceContract]

public partial class BookmarkService

{

   ...