Non IIS hosted webservice

[Gary H]

Hi,

If I were to write an application hosted webservice (ie a webservice that is
contained wholly within the application) what sort of .NET technology would
I use? I am writing an application that has a GUI and allows an remote
application to send messages to it via web service methods. I currently
have it working but using an ASP.NET webservice that communicates with the
GUI application via .NET remoting. It works OK I would rather not have to
go with the whole IIS, webservice DLL stuff in order to simplify things.

Also, maybe I should mention that the webservice methods and parameters are
defined by an industry standard WSDL and XML file so I would also need to
support that.

Thanks,
Gary

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Gary,

Thank you for posting.

Regarding on the hosting webservice in application without IIS, based on my
experience, you can consider using the Microsoft webservice enhancement
(WSE), which provide additional functionality to host webservice
application or extend the built-in ASP.NET webservice. The current latest
version is 3.0. In wse 3.0, it can help host asp.net webservice in our own
non-ASP.NET/IIS application or event use its own service class to create
webservice server(I think this will be suitable for your scenario if the
service is a lightweight one). You can get the WSE component and the
related MSDN document at the following links:

#Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservice...e/default.aspx

#How to: Host an ASP.NET Web Service Outside of IIS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...3a3-401f-82e5-
2e49588923b9.asp?frame=true

#How to: Send and Receive a SOAP Message By Using the SoapClient and
SoapService Classes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...672-4c17-b68e-
0d3e65067271.asp?frame=true

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Gary H]

Thank you very much for your recommendations. I will take take a look at
the provided links and see where that takes me.

Regards,
Gary

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Hi Gary,

Thank you for posting.

Regarding on the hosting webservice in application without IIS, based on
my
experience, you can consider using the Microsoft webservice enhancement
(WSE), which provide additional functionality to host webservice
application or extend the built-in ASP.NET webservice. The current latest
version is 3.0. In wse 3.0, it can help host asp.net webservice in our
own
non-ASP.NET/IIS application or event use its own service class to create
webservice server(I think this will be suitable for your scenario if the
service is a lightweight one). You can get the WSE component and the
related MSDN document at the following links:

#Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservice...e/default.aspx

#How to: Host an ASP.NET Web Service Outside of IIS
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...3a3-401f-82e5-
2e49588923b9.asp?frame=true

#How to: Send and Receive a SOAP Message By Using the SoapClient and
SoapService Classes
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...672-4c17-b68e-
0d3e65067271.asp?frame=true

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

You're welcome Gary,

If still anything we can help, please feel free to post here.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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