WCF service installation and verification in IIS and/or WAS

Question

I gather there is nothing more to deploying services than installing the .svc file and associated binaries in a hosted directory under IIS, as described here (IIS):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733766.aspx

and here (WAS):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733109.aspx

Two questions:

1. Is there any difference at all between these two scenarios for newer (>= 7.0) versions of IIS when using BasicHttpBinding?

2. Is there any way to view/test the WCF services hosted from within IIS? IIS has this nice UI but as far as I can tell, you have to look at web.config and test the services using wcftestclient or use a browser to see if everything is working at any given point.

Answer 1

There is no difference when using BasicHttpBinding in different versions of IIS. As far as I know there is no testing capability in IIS (TestWcfClient, unittests, ....)