clients not communicating with WCF Service

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Hello,
I am writing a piece of software which makes remote calls to do the processing.
The WCF service I am using for the processing is hosted in a Windows Service, the WCF service seems to be working because the main project can add it as a web reference via URL.

The problem I am having is that the remote calls time out and it doesn't appear to be able to call the method, I am following this[^] MSDN tutorial for self hosting in a Windows Service.

Secondly is there any way of debugging the WCF service?

If a code sample would help, I can attach some.

Thank You

Posted 7-Feb-11 4:07am

richasea

Updated 7-Feb-11 4:11am

v2

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-02-07T04:18:00

As I recently learned, a windows service cannot use WCF to communicate across privilege boundaries, regardless of the binding used UNLESS the app it's communicating with is run as admin.

You might want to checkout the article I posted on Saturday, where I was trying to do the same thing you want to do.

Synchronicity - A Folder Synchronizing Application[^]

The best way to debug a windows service is to create a console app that has the same core code in it (also done in the article I cited above).

EDIT (response to your comment) =============

Then you have a problem in your WCF service. If you want to debug your windows service, put the following code at the beginning of your OnStart method:

C#

#if DEBUG
    Debugger.Launch();
#endif

You're going to need to also add this to the file:

C#

using System.Diagnostics;