WAS Hosting In WCF

• Net.TCP listener Adapter
  
  
• Net.TCP Port Sharing Service
  
  
  Figure 1.4 Services Listing

Step 3 - Creating a WCF Service Library to place all the contracts and implementations.


Figure 1.5 WCF Library Creation Screen

Just select the WCF Templates on the left-hand side and select WCFServiceLibrary on the right side and name the project name as ServiceLib and press Ok

Step 4- Design your contract and implementation as per your requirements. In our example, I have named the contract as “ServiceLib” and named the implementation as “ServiceImp”





Figure 1.6 WCF Library APP.Config File

Make sure you have selected the binding “netTcpBinding”, as mentioned in the above snapshot.

Step 5- For Hosting purposes, create one more project. Select the project type as WCF Service Application. After that, delete all the .cs files in this project except .svc file as we had the contract and implementation in the separate project ServiceLib (Step 3).


Figure 1.7 WCF Service application Creation

Step 6- Change the Service tag in the SVC file content, as mentioned in the below snapshot.


Figure 1.3 SVC File Content

Make sure that the service tag has the class name where you have implemented the service operation. In this case, ServiceImp is the implementation class in the ServiceLib Project.

Step 7- Open Internet Information Services (IIS)


Figure 1.8 Adding Application in IIS

Select the Default Website and Add Application.


Figure 1.9 ADD Application Screen

Then, just update the physical path and click OK.

Step 8- Select default website and select Edit Bindings.




Figure 1.10 Edit Binding Selection

Please make sure that you have an entry for net.tcp in SiteBindings

Step 9 - Select your site and click Advanced Settings and update the enabled protocols as HTTP,net.tcp


Figure 2.1 Advanced Settings


Figure 2.2 Enabled Protocols

After that, select the .svc extension file in IIS and browse. Then, the service will start running perfectly.

Step 10- Client Configuration

Once you are able to browse the .svc file in your project/IIS, just copy that URL and add that as a Service Reference in the client project.


Figure 2.3 Service Reference Creation

After that, just create the object for that service reference and start utilizing the service methods. Please refer to the below snapshot for details



Summary

WAS Hosting is very useful when you want to use net.tcp and net.pipe protocols in IIS. WAS Hosting works only with IIS 7 version.