Point WCF .Svc file to Assembly in the GAC

Separating .SVC file from the WCF code

There are times when you want to package up all your web services into a dll and install in into the GAC. I had to do this on one of my recent Sharepoint/ Silverlight applications. I needed to install the the .SVC file in the Layouts directory of Sharepoint, but I didn't want all the other code there. So i performed the following steps.

1. Created an Interface for my service and created my service.
2. Created a .SVC file and stored it into the WebPart project in the 12/Templates/Layouts directory.
3. Update the .SVC file to point to your Assembly and Service namespace.

Now when you call your service URL http://..../service.svc it will reference the .dll in the GAC