How to host web service methods in your windows application? : DOTNET

..NETTers,

The .NET application that I am working on runs as a Windows service. A
separate command line client program needs to communicate with this
service to exchange data. The customers will run the client program as
and when desired.

Although I can write a traditional client/server communication program
over TCP, I am thinking that web services would work best for my needs.
The client program will simply communicate with the Windows service as
a web service client.

I searched on the net and I saw some reference to using HttpRuntime
class and processing .asmx files. Although this may work with some
tweaking, I am looking for a simpler solution where I don't need to set
up virtual directories and process .asmx files. My .NET application can
simply expose certain web service methods that the client can consume.

I would appreciate if you can forward me in the right direction.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Pradeep

Thus wrote Pradeep,

> .NETTers,
>
> The .NET application that I am working on runs as a Windows service. A
> separate command line client program needs to communicate with this
> service to exchange data. The customers will run the client program as
> and when desired.
>
> Although I can write a traditional client/server communication program
> over TCP, I am thinking that web services would work best for my
> needs. The client program will simply communicate with the Windows
> service as a web service client.
>
> I searched on the net and I saw some reference to using HttpRuntime
> class and processing .asmx files. Although this may work with some
> tweaking, I am looking for a simpler solution where I don't need to
> set up virtual directories and process .asmx files. My .NET
> application can simply expose certain web service methods that the
> client can consume.
>
> I would appreciate if you can forward me in the right direction.

Have a look at the Windows Communication Foundation in .NET 3.0. WCF services
can be easily hosted in any kind of Windows application, not just IIS. And
it by using the BasicHttpBinding, you can provide compatibility with ASP.NET2.0
web services.

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
news-reply@joergjooss.de

Ok. I will take a look at it.

Thank you for your help.

Pradeep

Hello There,

With reference to the discussions mentioned above,
I am also facing a similar design issue.
I have a distributed application [Windows Service] which interacts with
Clients using TIBCO Messages.Its a two way interaction.The Client sends
in the Request and the response is sent Asynchronously via a TIBCO
message.Now this Distributed Application is suppose to service Web
Clients too. The Proposed design is
Writing a Remoting Class within this Windows Service which will expose
HTTPChannels.
A WebService which will be consumed by the WebClients.
This WebService Method will invoke this Remoting Class Method and sent
the request to the Windows Service.
We cannot use WCF due to Software Configuration limitations.
Please let me know your comments on this Proposed solution.
Thanking you in advance.



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