WCF Newbie trying to deploy C# winforms application

Question

This is my first experience with WCF and I am having a hard time wrapping my head around what is going on here. I have created an N-Tier application that uses a SQL database on our server. The application runs fine while running within Visual Studio because it automatically creates the WCF service. What I don't understand is how to create the service when the application is run outside of VS.

I have read many articles that detail the different ways to host the service but none that explain the steps to do it. Most take for granted a certain degree of knowledge with IIS, which I have no experience with it. I know you can also self-host the service. It seems like this would be the way to go, but again, I can't find documentation for setting this up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Randy

Answer 1

I prefer self-hosting in a Windows Service intead of using IIS. Here is a blog post I wrote about this topic.

https://geek-goddess-bonnie.blogspot.com/2013/10/easy-windows-services.html

That should help you get things set up ...

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~~Bonnie DeWitt [C# MVP]

http://geek-goddess-bonnie.blogspot.com

Answer 2

Hi Randy,

Welcome to the WCF World :)

This link should help you with the self hosted wcf service:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wcf/how-to-host-a-wcf-service-in-a-managed-application

Do let everyone know how does it go for you.

Thanks,

Chirag Dave