January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
507 pages
13h 27m
English
book
Pro WCF: Practical Microsoft SOA Implementation
by Chris Peiris, Dennis Mulder, Shawn Cicoria, Amit Bahree, Nishith Pathak
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Hosting in Windows Services
Hosting a WCF service in a Windows service is a logical choice. Windows services shouldn't be confused with WCF services. They both use the word service, but they have different meanings. A Windows service is a process managed by the operating system. Windows comes with the Service Control Manager, which controls the services installed on the operating system. Windows uses services to support operating system features such as networking, USB, remote access, message queuing, and so on. You can use Visual Studio 2005 to create a Windows service using the Windows Service project template shown in Figure 5-2.
The Windows Service project template generates a project that contains two files: the service1.cs that contains ...