WCF RIA Service hosted outside IIS

Question

I have a need to host WCF RIA Services outside IIS on a client machine. After reading the following threads:

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/182302/413287.aspx
Can WCF RIA Services be self hosted?
http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/213861/512468.aspx
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-CA/silverlightdeveloper/thread/804341f3-9f1e-420b-9cdc-c1334bd9302f

I gave up on that idea due to the "AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsAttribute" that RIA Service uses and started researching alternative solutions.

However, just yesterday I read more about Visual Studio LightSwitch and the fact that uses WCF RIA Services internally. With LightSwitch, you can deploy your appliction in a 2-tier scenario on the desktop that gets installed using ClickOnce and runs as a Silverlight out-of-browser application that can access data without connectiong to IIS.

Does anyone know how this can be accomplished?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Lightswitch uses Visual Studio's Cassini server in the 2-tier scenario. I don't know much more about how it's hosted. In summary, it's still an ASP.NET compatible environment but this time with dependencies on Visual Studio.