Following an example about WCF, it seems that in VS 2010 you could right click the references, hit "Add Service Reference", and then hit the "Discover" to get find services in the solution.
This does not work in VS 2013. I have my Service dll, I have a service host, but it will not find any services.
Clean, rebuild, try again -> same outcome.
I'm running VS as an administrator (Win 8 + VS 2013 -> can't run WCF if not admin).
The option of running the service through VS and then adding a reference does not exist (won't allow to add service reference when running), so the only solutions I've found are:
Use svcutil manually (works though)
run the service.exe manually (as admin), and then point to it's end point.
Any ideas what's up?
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I would like to achieve, with Web API, the following WCF behaviour:
Using Visual Studio 2015 create a brand new WCF Service Application. Build. Right away the sample service is "online" and can be accessed with a browser, Fiddler, etc. I do not need to explicitly run the project in VS for the services to be available to any client.
I'm completely new to Web API, and have not seen any documentation on how to achieve this same seamless deployment.
Anyone?
Instead of running the project in Visual Studio (which spins up an IIS Express instance), make sure the IIS feature is turned on on your windows installation, and setup a new site, and point it at the directory of your build output.
For a step-by-step see: http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/2b481f/how-to-host-Asp-Net-web-api-on-iis-server/
I have a service that is host in a console application. when I run this application inside visual studio, the service is open and I can access from the client or when I use the uri in an internet browser.
However, when I run the exe, the service is not open and I can't acccess to the service. I have tried to run as elevated privileges, but it does not work.
Why in visual estudio works and stand alone not?
I am using VS2015 community and WCF 4.5.
Thanks.
I have 2 virtual directory on my IIS (first for server developing and second for client devloping).
Each directory point to different folders:
c:\Server\ -> localhost/Server/service.svc
c:\Client\ -> localhost/Client/service.svc
(Whenever server "binaries" are stable I copy them to Client path)
My problem is that whenever I start debugger for server (where in VS I set "Use local IIS web server" to "localhost/Server/service.svc" ) the breakpoints are also hit form localhost/Client/service.svc (also when "binaries" are different).
I thing it is because debugger connect to w3wp.exe .
I tried to change AssemblyInfo.cs but that didn't help.
Thanks.
I assume that run both websites under the same IIS AppPool. This means that both websites run in the same process. You need to use different IIS AppPools if you want Visual Studio to debug only Server.
Also you probably have architectural issue. Usually there is no need to have the same service.svc in client and server.
Normaly you should have one Visual Studio solution with 3 projects configured as follows:
Project with Contracts (contains data and service contracts)
Server project with *.svc files
Client project that contains Server references generated for Server endpoint.
Both Client and Server reference Contracts.
I am new to WCF web service development and I can use some help.
I have a simple web service written in C# that I'm hosting on a remote server (it's hosted on IIS 5.1).
I've written a client application for that web service that I'm running on my workstation.I am able to connect to the service without any problems.
However, I would like to be able to debug the web service.I need to be able to step through the code, set breakpoints, etc.How do I achieve that from my local machine? I'm using Visual Studio 2010.
Thank you in advance.
I see two possibilities:
Local debugging: For debugging, run your service on your local machine. If you want to run it on the local IIS, simply start a second instance if VS2010 and attach to the w3wp.exe process (menu Tools -> Attach to process)
Remote Debugging: You have to install and start the VS2010 remote debugger on the server. Start a second instance of VS2010 on your development box and connect to the remote debugger with menu Tools -> Attach to process.
See msdn for more information about remote debugging with VS2010.
I am having a very basic problem with creating WCF. So here is what i did
Created an ASP.NET web site project in VS2008.
Created a WCF service application in the same solution. Added a new WCF service "WCFService1.svc" into this project.
3,. Changed the setting of the Web server from "Use Visual Studio Development Server" to "Use IIS local web server".
Clicked add "Service Reference" in ASP.net web site project and clicked discover to see the "WCFService1" service. Now when I try to add Service Reference, I get an error all the time saying "Security settings for this service require 'Anonymous' Authentication but it is not enabled for the IIS application that hosts this service."
But if I revert back to the "Use Visual Studio Development SErver" setting, things run fine.
Please tell me what is going on here. This is driving me nuts! Eventually the project needs to be deployed in IIS to I am surprised if no-one else cam across this problem.
The VS development server uses Anonymous Authentication by default. If you change the authentication in the Options of the virtual directory it would work.
Here I found some links that might help you.