Hi everyone, I really was hesitant to post here for fear of seeming
foolish but I really am desparate, and do appreciate any opportunity
to get answers from real people. So please forgive the stupid
questions.
I just recently becan learning about WCF as a way to create web
services. I had no prior experience developing web service
architecture.
My main question is very naive -- I hope someone can be kind enough to
respond.
In VS2008 how do you publish a WCF Service Library template to a web
server?
I have successfully run a demo called WCFTicketingSer vice from
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/38814. It runs easily on the local
test server by pressing F5, but I see no option to publish this to a
web server. It appears to need compilation to run, unlike my other
working service that I just directly copy to the server using FTP.
Obviously I'm overlooking something basic. But I've Googled this
topic for hours with nothing but long technical articles that are 99%
unrelated to my question... sorry it's getting frustrating. Most
these articles are written by people who work with teams who all help
each other and I'm all alone so it's kind of hard as you might
imagine.
That's my main question. But I have a couple more if nobody minds.
Since the above demo uses net.tcp protocal does that mean it won't run
on Windows 2003 Server? That what I gather, but surprisingly the
article does not say.
If the answer to the above question is that it won't run on 2003
Server, can anyone advice me as to whether there is a way to
'eliminate server polling' with .Net, that is, have a web server send
a message to essentially 'wake up' a client application, so the client
doesn't have to constantly poll?
That's really all I initially wanted. Just for the web server to send
a simple message so the client knows to download information from the
server. Then I ended up learning about all these new technologies,
but still nothing that does this very basic thing. A simple one bit
message to trigger the client, that's all I really wanted.
foolish but I really am desparate, and do appreciate any opportunity
to get answers from real people. So please forgive the stupid
questions.
I just recently becan learning about WCF as a way to create web
services. I had no prior experience developing web service
architecture.
My main question is very naive -- I hope someone can be kind enough to
respond.
In VS2008 how do you publish a WCF Service Library template to a web
server?
I have successfully run a demo called WCFTicketingSer vice from
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/38814. It runs easily on the local
test server by pressing F5, but I see no option to publish this to a
web server. It appears to need compilation to run, unlike my other
working service that I just directly copy to the server using FTP.
Obviously I'm overlooking something basic. But I've Googled this
topic for hours with nothing but long technical articles that are 99%
unrelated to my question... sorry it's getting frustrating. Most
these articles are written by people who work with teams who all help
each other and I'm all alone so it's kind of hard as you might
imagine.
That's my main question. But I have a couple more if nobody minds.
Since the above demo uses net.tcp protocal does that mean it won't run
on Windows 2003 Server? That what I gather, but surprisingly the
article does not say.
If the answer to the above question is that it won't run on 2003
Server, can anyone advice me as to whether there is a way to
'eliminate server polling' with .Net, that is, have a web server send
a message to essentially 'wake up' a client application, so the client
doesn't have to constantly poll?
That's really all I initially wanted. Just for the web server to send
a simple message so the client knows to download information from the
server. Then I ended up learning about all these new technologies,
but still nothing that does this very basic thing. A simple one bit
message to trigger the client, that's all I really wanted.
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