i've created simple windows service which gets some xml information once in a hour. I want to have access to this xml information from a website. I know i should create WCF service for that but where do i host the WCF service same application as Windows Service or elsewhere?
If someone knows about blog post or tutorial how to make this work, i would be glad to know.
Thanks
Store your XML information in a database and have your website get it from there.
you can host wcf services inside a windows service if you want, just manually create a ServiceHost.
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I am sorry in advance for the question because it should be so easy for someone who has web programming experience, but for me ...
I have created a WCF library which gets an email address, subject and body and sends email using a gmail account. I do not know how I can deploy it.
I already published it on my host using visual studio but don't know what URL should I use to call it. Can I use it directly or I have to create a WCFapplication and add the service to it then publish the WCF app?
Also, I noticed the base address in its config file is sth like: localhost/emailservice/service1 and I am not sure if I should edit it or not and how.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Since you created a WCF library, I am assuming that you are open to host it as an IIS application or as a windows service.
Assuming that you wish to host your library as an IIS application, follow the steps mentioned in this blog to host your WCF service library.
Please note: If you intended to host your service as an IIS application, it would have been far easier for you to create a WCF service application project in Visual Studio instead of a WCF service library project.
I've gone through some tutorials on creating a WCF service. I'm using Visual Studio 2012. I got a very simple WCF Service Library (vb.net) and Windows Application (vb.net) communicating via WCF. That's a start.
However, my project requires I do the following:
My Windows Service - This is already an application that has it's tasks.
My Application - This is an application that is already developed as well.
I need the service to talk to the application. The service will need to send the following information to the windows application:
Status Updates
Metric Information (mostly integers for counts)
I need the application to send information to the service. It would need to send:
Reload Configuration command
Should be relatively simple, but I've never worked with WCF until today. So I have some questions...
Do I need to re-work my current windows service into a WCF Service?
Since it won't be in IIS, do I also create a WCF Service Library or do I roll this into the windows service somehow?
What is the best way to set up the different types of communication? (i.e., sending over specific metrics and reload commands)
Probably the main question is what components, in addition to my current windows service and application, will I need to make this work?
I hope that was clear :( I think I'm confusing it all... but I hope not
Your Windows service can host the WCF service. Similarly, if you want, your application can host a WCF service. The application could talk to the WCF service in the Windows Service, and the Windows Service's WCF could talk to the one in the application. Depending on the nature of the communication, you could also just use a callback channel to permit the Windows Service's WCF to call back to the application.
I suppose you should configure your WCF windows service to use named pipes. If your windows service is already built then the easiest way to do it would be to build another one as a WCF windows service and wrap the already existing functionality.
Hope I helped!
I have WCF hosted in IIS. There is a service method which gets the latest Db table record and do some work.
I want my web service to periodically cheks the database table and if there is new record deposited in the table then do the work.
I know how to handle this If my WCF hosted as windows service. But have no idea to do with IIS hosted WPF.
Please advice me.
if u need your wcf service to be invoked at some defined intervals, you can use Quartz Scheduler, where we can specify a particular task to be executed at defined intervals
pls check this link
http://quartz-scheduler.org/documentation/quartz-2.x/tutorials/
It will basically be a Windows Service, with your WCF service reference added to it.
you can just use the Quartz API.
I am going to need a web service that receives a string via HTTP POST and processes it without any response to the client. However, since I'm not the one making the client (which will be cell phones) I am unable to use a generated client class to consume the service. The service would also need to be self hosted in a regular Windows service, if that matters.
As I'm not too experienced with web services nor WCF, I am frankly unsure if I can or should use WCF for this, but as it's the only type of web service I'm at least a little familiar with I figured it would be great to start out with one if at all possible.
I've been googling around quite a bit but haven't been able to find any good references to this, so I'd also be very grateful if someone has a link lying around to someplace that discusses it.
I think you need WCF Restful service with one way operation. Following link might help you:
A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit,
This seems to be a recurring problem to me. I want to get started doing wcf services. I create a new Wcf Service Library, compile it, and publish it using FTP to my providers webhotel. But its not working. I somehow cant get access. I dont want some fancy security model - i just want to get a hole through to my simple webservice. Seems that its the part when i publish it to my webhotel (in a subdomain) that breaks the webservice - its working perfectly when starting it locally.
How to proceed anyone?
Often you need confguration information to host a service. If the service is hosted in IIS, then you need that configuration in web.config. Are you updating Web.config properly? Some hosters don't allow it.
To address this problem you can set up your IIS-hosted WCF service to read its config data from elsewhere.
I wrote a bit about my findings, this solved my issue: http://www.vikingworks.dk/post/WCF-Service-on-hosted-environment.aspx