Create WCF Service without using Wizard

This blog gives you the clear picture of WCF implementation.

Introduction

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is an SDK for developing and deploying services on Windows.

WCF provides a runtime environment for services, enabling you to expose CLR types as services, and to consume other services as CLR types.

Service: the functionality exposed to the world

Client: consuming the functionality from the service.

Main Components

1. Endpoint
2. Hosting environment
3. Service class

The Endpoint in WCF Is ABC

• A- Address (where)
• B-Binding (How)
• C-Contract

WCF supports following transport schemas

• HTTP
• TCP
• Peer network
• IPC (Inter-Process Communication over named pipes)
• MSMQ

Contracts in WCF

• Service Contract
  
     - Service Contract (at class level)
     - Operation Contract(at method level)
  
  
• Data Contract
  
     - Data contract (at class level)
     - Data Member (at property level)
  
  
• Fault Contract
• Message Contract

Hosting of WCF

1. IIS
2. Self Hosting
3. WAS (Windows Activation Service)

Implementation

STEPS FOR WCF IMPLEMENTATION

• Console application
• Add reference system.serviceModel.dll
• Include the namespace System.ServiceModel;

Server Side

• Create a service contract
  

  [ServiceContract (Namespace=http://.......)] (this is for an interface)

• Create an Interface
  

  Public interface Icalc
  {
     …
     …
  }

• Declare an method of each operation with OperationContract attribute
  

  [ServiceContract (Namespace=http://.......)]
  Public interface Icalc
  {
     [OperationContract]
     Int add(int n1,int n2);
     [OperationContract]
     Int Sub(int n1,int n2);
  }

• Create an another class which implements the interface
  

  public class cal_op:ICalc
  {
     public int add(int a,int b)
     {
        return(a+b);
     }
     public int sub(int a,int b)
     {
        return(a-b);
     }
  }

In main program

• Config. The address
  

  Uri baseaddress=new uri(http://…..”);

• Create a service host
  

  ServiceHost selfhost=new ServiceHost(typeof(class_name),<object of uri >);
  ServiceHost selfhost=new ServiceHost(typeof(cal_op),baseAddress);

• Add service end point
  

  Selfhost.AddServiceEndPoint(typeof(<interface name>),new WSHttpBinding(),”<service name>”);
  Selfhost.AddServiceEndPoint(typeof(Icalc),new WSHttpBinding(),”calc_server”);

• Hosting with Metadata
  

  ServiceMetadataBehavior smb=new ServiceMetadataBehavior();
  Smb.HttpGetEnabled=true;
  Selfhost.Description.Behaviors.Add(smb);

• Then open the host
  

  <host_name>.open();
  Selfhost.Open();
  
  …
  …
  Selfhost.Close();

In VS2008 CMD

Svcutill.exe/language:cs/out:<filename.cs>/config http://……
Svcutill.exe/language:cs/out:client.cs>/config http://……

Add that file to client solution.

Client side

Create an end point by using tat obj:

<servicename> obj=new <servicename>();
Console.WriteLine(“{0}”,obj.Add(10,5));