I have to export data from a database in the form of flat files. I already have an asp.net website which saves data into the db. I am thinking of creating a WCF webservice project as part of the website solution. This WCF webservice will have methods to export flatfiles. I am also planning to create a console app to call this webservice at scheduled times.
I have the following questions:
Once the website is hosted on IIS along with WCF, can the console app call the WCF or WCF has to be hosted separately?
How to debug the process?
is there any better way of doing it?
Once the website is hosted on IIS along with WCF, can the console app
call the WCF or WCF has to be hosted separately?
The console app can call the WCF web service. It does not have to be hosted separately.
How to debug the process?
Ideally, on your own PC. Easy way to do is to launch the WCF Webservice within one instance of Visual Studio and the Console App on another instance of VS. You can put break points on each of the projects and follow the logic
is there any better way of doing it?
There are many ways to do one thing but yours in this case looks good to me.
Your plan sounds fine to me.
If I were doing this I might create a WCF Service with One Way Operations so that the client app is not waiting for a response until the job is complete.
I might use Powershell and a scheduled task to hit the WCF service, or even use the free Pingdom service to hit the service endpoint at intervals.
To debug locally- if the WCF is it's own project make sure it's set as the startup project in VS, then apply break points, run debug and request the endpoint through the browser or Fiddler.
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We have ASP.NET 4.5 web services (asmx) with a lot of projects and classes.
We need to recreate bugs in production enviroment so if a bug is reported we would like to view a log file so we can recreate the bug.
It will be a lot of work to write logger code lines in the solution projects.
Is there any logging add-in/extension that will do the work more rapidly?
We use WCF Message logging. It logs the entire xml that is sent into the web service.
If we have a problem in test or Production, we take the xml, put it into SOAP UI and run it against the web service. This Works well for stateless calculation services, for services that require state you could take a copy of Production to recreate the problem in test.
Here is how you can configure it: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730064(v=vs.110).aspx
I have created a WCF Service and published it to a Windows Server running IIS. In an asp.net web application, I can add a Service Reference to the WCF Service which exposes its methods which I can call. This all works fine.
I need someone who is running a jsp site to be able to call a method in my WCF Service. How can they do that? (I know absolutely nothing about jsp). Presumably they cannot reference my WCF Service within their application in the same way you can within a .net application.
The web services are totally platform independent. Therefore, someone writing in Java should have no problem calling a web service server, regardless if it was written using WCF or another platform. For example, here, here and here you could find some tutorials on how to build web service clients using java. This java code could be called from JSP pages.
If you want to quickly test your web service from the client side, you could use SoapUI. It's a web service client tool developed in java. I am sure you will find it useful.
Hope I helped!
I'm responsible for a .NET process running under windows.
The process is running as a windows service.
I would like to have the ability to be able to get some info from the service in a web browser.
For that matter I would like to write a small ASP.NET web service.
The problem is that I want the run the web service within my process.
As far as I know, I can't do that since ASP.NET must run from within an IIS.
so...my question is, is it possible to host ASP.NET server within another process?
I know that in the common scenario, I should have the "process code" run as "code behind" the ASP.NET but in my case, the .NET service is already a part of our product so in this case I'd like to have the opposite.
Thanks a lot.
You don't have to host ASP.NET inside your service. You can use inter-process communications techniques to communicate between your service and a new or existing ASP.NET webapp. Here's an example using named pipes. Or if you're using .NET 3.5 or higher you can use WCF.
If you really want the service to host its own site I don't think embedding ASP.NET is possible but you can use an http component like this one.
I have an ASP.NET web-site and a WCF service which is called from ASP. The problem is, that during the first client request the site loads aufully slow, cause some time-consuming static objects are being created inside the WCF service. Is it possible to call any service method (by doing this the wcf object will be created), when the site gets loaded in IIS? (I know there is a solution for this problem in ASP 4 and IIS 7.5, but i'd like to know what's about IIS6-7). It is something like "user emulation") Maybe i can add some event handlers in global.asax? Any help is appreciated.
A very simple solution is to use wget within a scheduled task in Windows to simply issue a HTTP GET to your service. This will keep your application 'warm' and ticking over.
Im trying to make a webservice in ASP.NET and get the data in a Smart Device Application.
I have the standard HelloWorld webservice and i wanna get the data in my application, but when i try to add a web reference to my project, Visual Studio can't find any webservices running. If i start the WebService in the WebService project and copy/paste the url to the "Add WebReference" in the Application project, Visual Studio finds the Webservice and i can use the InttilSence to find the HelloWorld Method (WebServiceClass.HelloWorld()) in the WebService. But when i then run the Application project the complier gives an error saying that it can't connect to the WebService.
How do i do this? How do i access a webservice in an Application project? Every tutorial or book i have read about the subject doesn't tell anything about how the webservice should i run. In my world the webservice project should be running before i can access it from another project or am i wrong?
Consider reading Rick Strahl's Creating Web Services with .NET and Visual Studio.
From there, you'll get the basics. You can build and deploy your XML SOAP web service.
Then you'll need to have your application use that web service as a 'Web Reference'. Start by "Add Web Reference".
(source: usaepay.com)
First, you should publish the web service to some server (even your own local IIS) rather than using the Visual Studio web server.
Then in your application, point to the correct URL wherever you published it when adding the reference.
While this is a bit low-tech, couldn't you create a web requrest from the Smart Device Application to hit the webservice directly? That would be my suggestion.
An example would be using the "WebRequest" Class.
It sounds like when you try to access the Web Service from your app, the service is not running (possibly because you're only running it in the Cassini server?).
The fact that you were able to generate the Web Reference means that at some point, the service was running and was able to generate the helper classes by examining the service.
I would do as David Stratton suggests and publish it somewhere where it can run while you are developing the Smart Device app (like your local IIS).
You might also take the opportunity to wrap the service call with some error handling - maybe catch the specific exception being thrown (System.Net.WebException?)