WCF Newbie question

boycoto

Hi guys, please help with WCF.
I've seen a lot of tutorial that uses a client (web app, win app) to consume the methos of a WCF. However, in my case, the WCF that I am going to create will not have a client, which means, the WCF will be hosted as a windows service. Is it okay that a WCF will do everything like reading a data from a file and store it on the database?

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Hemant Srivastava14y ago
Accepted answer
Yes, It's possible. But in your case, you can do this by a simple windows service instead of WCF service hosted as windows service.
WCF service in mainly useful in the case where you have to communicate with the service like StartReadinData(), StoreDataIntoDB(), DoSomeProcess() etc...
And you can send some parameters into WCF Service and get output from the service as well. But if you don't have to send any info/get any info from service, windows service would be a simpler option.

If it helps you, pls make it as accepted answer.
Thanks
boycoto14y ago
Thank you for your reply, you give me an idea on what is WCF for.