I have a WCF service hosted in a console application (which also acts as a Windows Service installer), please see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733069.aspx
Here's what the class looks like in a console application:
public class MyAppWindowsService : ServiceBase
{
public ServiceHost _MyAppClientServiceHost = null;
public ServiceHost _MyAppIntegrationServiceHost = null;
public ServiceHost _MyAppserviceHost = null;
public MyAppWindowsService()
{
ServiceName = "MyApp Service";
}
public static void Main()
{
ServiceBase.Run(new MyAppWindowsService());
}
private void StopService(ServiceHost serviceHost)
{
if (serviceHost != null)
{
serviceHost.Close();
serviceHost = null;
}
}
private ServiceHost StartService(Type serviceType)
{
ServiceHost serviceHost = null;
serviceHost = new ServiceHost(serviceType);
serviceHost.Open();
return serviceHost;
}
private void StartServices()
{
StopService(_MyAppClientServiceHost);
StopService(_MyAppIntegrationServiceHost);
StopService(_MyAppServiceHost);
_MyAppClientServiceHost = StartService(typeof(MyApp.ServiceImplementation.MyAppClientService));
_MyAppIntegrationServiceHost = StartService(typeof(MyApp.ServiceImplementation.MyAppIntegration));
_MyAppServiceHost = StartService(typeof(MyApp.ServiceImplementation.HL7Service));
}
private void StopServices()
{
StopService(_MyAppClientServiceHost);
StopService(_MyAppIntegrationServiceHost);
StopService(_MyAppHl7ServiceHost);
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
StartServices();
}
protected override void OnStop()
{
StopServices();
}
}
This is done to work in the Windows service, how can I do this to run it as a regular selfhost in debug mode (during development)? or do I really need to run a special project in order to be able to debug this servlet at runtime?
Edit:
I decided to use an existing Windows service project, but changed the main thing to something like this:
public static void Main()
{
if (Debugger.IsAttached)
{
Console.WriteLine("--- MyApp Services ---");
Console.WriteLine("Starting services...");
Instance.StartServices();
Console.WriteLine("--Finished--");
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit");
Console.ReadKey();
Instance.StopServices();
}
else
ServiceBase.Run(new MyAppWindowsService());
}
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