Castle WCF Facility | Windows Service Hosting

[Mijo Thomas]

I’m trying to use Castle WCF integration facility in my WCF project,
but got lost in the way. Can you please help me out?

So, here is the situation:

I have a WCF Service Library, which is hosted inside a Windows Service
over TCP. Following is what is in my WCF Service Library: Service
Impl:

[ServiceContract]
public interface ICalculatorService
{
[OperationContract]
int Add(int x, int y);
}

public class CalculatorService : ICalculatorService
{
public int Add(int x, int y)
{
return x + y;
}
}
Configuration:

<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="namespace.CalculatorService">
<endpoint address="" binding="netTcpBinding"
bindingConfiguration=""
contract="namespace.iCalculatorService">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexTcpBinding"
bindingConfiguration=""
contract="IMetadataExchange" />
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:8732/
CalculatorService/" />
</baseAddresses>
</host>
</service>
</services>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior name="">
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="false" />
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false" />
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
</system.serviceModel>

Container Configuration This is inside WCF project were I register
everything to castle (I'm not sure where the wcf facility should be
registered, whether it should be registered from the WCF service or
from the Windows service which hosts the WCF service).

public class ConfigureContainerCastle
{
private readonly IWindsorContainer container;

public ConfigureContainerCastle(IWindsorContainer container)
{
this.container = container;
}

public void Configure()
{
// Any component registration.

container.Register(Component.For<ICalculatorService>().ImplementedBy<CalculatorService>());
//All other component registration.
}
}
Following is what is in my Windows Service:

public class Host<T>:ServiceBase
{
private ServiceHost serviceHost = null;
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
if (serviceHost != null)
{
serviceHost.Close();
}

// How do I call the DefaultServiceHostFactory and
start the service?
// Should I call the WCF facility from here or from
WCF service library?
// var container = new WindsorContainer();
// var configureContainer = new
DataServicesConfigureContainer(container);
// var hostFactory = new
DefaultServiceHostFactory(container.Kernel);

serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof (T));
serviceHost.Open();
}

protected override void OnStop()
{
if (serviceHost == null)
return;

serviceHost.Close();
serviceHost = null;
}
}
And my configuration(app.config) for Windows Service is same as my WCF
service, literally line by line.

Now the question is, how do I wire this all together with WCF
facility? I have seen lot of examples using http and global.asax, but
none for windows services. Can you please help? Even an appropriate
link to it will be helpful.

Thanks, -Mike

[Berke Sokhan]

Hello,

Basically, you need zero configuration in app.config file. 

You can do all WCF-specific configuration with fluent registration API presented by WCF facility library extension methods to Castle Windsor container. For samples you can check the unit tests of the project - which are now integrated with Castle.Windsor repo - instead of outdated blog posts spreaded all over...

WillApplyServiceAwareExtensions  test could be sample for you https://github.com/castleproject/Windsor/blob/master/src/Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration.Tests/Service/WcfServiceFixture.cs 

Also [SetUp] part could ring some bells:

https://github.com/castleproject/Windsor/blob/master/src/Castle.Facilities.WcfIntegration.Tests/Service/Lifestyle/PerWcfOperationLifestyleTestCase.cs 

2012/5/29 Mijo Thomas <thoma...@gmail.com>

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[Serdar B.]

Hi,

I think this sample is a good basic example for wcf facility with windows service...

https://github.com/serdarb/DogmaticWcf

(you need to add the installer class)

Serdar

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