How do I create a WCF service?

In this article

1. Ensure That IIS, ASP.NET and WCF Are Correctly Installed and Registered.
2. Create a New IIS Application or Reuse an Existing ASP.NET Application.
3. Create an .svc File for the WCF Service.
4. Deploy the Service Implementation to the IIS Application.
5. Configure the WCF Service.
6. See also.

What is a WCF service?

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using WCF, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service that supplies current data to others, such as a traffic report or other monitoring service.

Is it possible to self host WCF service?

This is referred to as a self hosting WCF service, the exact meaning of Self Hosted is that it hosts the service in an application that could be a Console Application or Windows Forms and so on. Earlier we saw what a WCF Service is in the . Net environment. We can host a WCF service in IIS and a Windows service also.

How can create WCF service in asp net with example?

Creating WCF Services

1. Now the following things get added into your project in solution Explorer.
2. Now I am adding one model class called “Employee. cs” to my project as follow. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq;
3. Now open the Web. config and write the following connection string in it.

How do I run a local WCF Service?

To open WCF Test Client, open Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio and execute WcfTestClient.exe. Select Add Service from the File menu. Type http://localhost:8080/hello into the address box and click OK. Make sure the service is running or else this step fails.

How can I check my WCF service?

Testing WCF service using Test Client (wcftestclient.exe)

1. Open Visual Studio command prompt and type wcftestclient then Enter.
2. After pressing Enter, we get a GUI application of the WCF Test Client.
3. Select File->Add Service and type the service endpoint url as address and click ok.
4. Double click on Greeting Method.

How do I run a WCF service locally?

What is WCF and why do we need WCF service?

WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. It is basically used to create a distributed and interoperable Application. WCF Applications came into the picture in .Net 3.0 Framework. This is a framework, which is used for creating Service oriented Applications. You can send the data asynchronously from one end point to another.

How to consume WCF service?

now we need to implement the proxy class for the client. There are different ways of creating the proxy.

Was hosting in WCF?

Self-Host in a Managed Application.

What is .SVC file in WCF?

IService – Service Interface File