Creating a Self Hosted WCF Service

If you haven't created the WCF Service go to following link to create the Service.

CreateWCF Service in Visual Studio 2013 Step by Step

If you created the WCF Service follow the following Step to Self Host.

Step 1:- Open Visual Studio 2010

Step 2:- Go to File menu => New => Project...

Step 3:- Left Pane Templates select Visual C# => Select Console Application from Middle pane => Type SelfHost in the Name box => Click OK.

Step 4:- Right click SelfHost in Solution Explorer => Select Add Reference.... => Select System.ServiceModel from the .NET tab => Click OK.

Step 5:- Right click SelfHost in Solution Explorer => Select Add Reference.... => Select Browse tab => Give Service File path "D:\DEMO\WCF\EmployeeWcfService\EmployeeWcfService\bin" => Click OK => Select EmployeeWcfService.dll => Click OK.

Step 5:- Add the following namespace

using System.ServiceModel;

using System.ServiceModel.Description;

using EmployeeWcfService;

Step 6:- Create an instance of the Uri class with the base address for the service.

Uri baseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:52923/EmployeeService.svc");

Step 7:- Create an instance of the ServiceHost class, passing a Type that represents the service type and the base address Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to the ServiceHost(Type, Uri[]). Enable metadata publishing, and then call the Open method on the ServiceHost to initialize the service and prepare it to receive messages.

// Create the ServiceHost.

using (ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(EmployeeService), baseAddress))

{

// Enable metadata publishing.

ServiceMetadataBehavior smb = new ServiceMetadataBehavior();

smb.HttpGetEnabled = true;

smb.MetadataExporter.PolicyVersion = PolicyVersion.Policy15;

host.Description.Behaviors.Add(smb);

// Open the ServiceHost to start listening for messages. Since

// no endpoints are explicitly configured, the runtime will create

// one endpoint per base address for each service contract implemented

// by the service.

host.Open();

Console.WriteLine("The service is ready at {0}", baseAddress);

Console.WriteLine("Press <Enter> to stop the service.");

Console.ReadLine();

// Close the ServiceHost.

host.Close();

}

Complete Code

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.ServiceModel;

using System.ServiceModel.Description;

using EmployeeWcfService;

namespace SelfHost

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

Uri baseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:52923/EmployeeService.svc");

// Create the ServiceHost.

using (ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(EmployeeService), baseAddress))

{

// Enable metadata publishing.

ServiceMetadataBehavior smb = new ServiceMetadataBehavior();

smb.HttpGetEnabled = true;

smb.MetadataExporter.PolicyVersion = PolicyVersion.Policy15;

host.Description.Behaviors.Add(smb);

// Open the ServiceHost to start listening for messages. Since

// no endpoints are explicitly configured, the runtime will create

// one endpoint per base address for each service contract implemented

// by the service.

host.Open();

Console.WriteLine("The service is ready at {0}", baseAddress);

Console.WriteLine("Press <Enter> to stop the service.");

Console.ReadLine();

// Close the ServiceHost.

host.Close();

}

}

}

}

Step 7:- Press Ctrl + F5 Or Use Visual Studio Start Debugging(F5) icon to run the service.

If you get the following error.

1. Check you have administrative rights.

2. Run Visual Studio instance as an administrator.

Step :- Right Click Visual Studio Icon => Click "Run as administrator"

Step 8:- If following screen appear, Your WCF service is running and SelfHosted Successfully => Use following URL to Consume the Service.

URL :- http://localhost:52923/EmployeeService.svc

Now your WCF Service running, to check it follow the following link to consume it.

ConsumingWCF Service in Visual Studio 2013 Step by Step

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