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How are you hosting the service--in IIS or in a self-hosted setup (e.g. console application or windows service)?
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How are you hosting the service--in IIS or in a self-hosted setup (e.g. console application or windows service)?

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I've been using debug mode, in VS2010 so far, just now paying attention to the fact it was going through IIS. &nbsp;However, I'm planning on building this for a console app. &nbsp;I'm guessing that the console app will call it on its void main.
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I've been using debug mode, in VS2010 so far, just now paying attention to the fact it was going through IIS.  However, I'm planning on building this for a console app.  I'm guessing that the console app will call it on its void main.

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I'll add this line: &nbsp;I didn't realize some of the difficulties in producing the console app version. &nbsp;The first I tried was windows service, which was a huge pain. &nbsp;Then I tried console app from <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731758.aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731758.aspx</a>, and then called the initializer from the main() in the console app.
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I'll add this line:  I didn't realize some of the difficulties in producing the console app version.  The first I tried was windows service, which was a huge pain.  Then I tried console app from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731758.aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms731758.aspx], and then called the initializer from the main() in the console app.

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I have a C# WCF project (vs2010u) and I need to be able to point to a start up method. &nbsp;Most applications have static void main, but I don't see that here.<br />
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How can I get a WCF service to automatically execute a particular method on startup?<br />
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Also, is there a close event that I can have it respond to as well?<br />
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Thanks.<br />
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I have a C# WCF project (vs2010u) and I need to be able to point to a start up method.  Most applications have static void main, but I don't see that here.

How can I get a WCF service to automatically execute a particular method on startup?

Also, is there a close event that I can have it respond to as well?

Thanks.



C# wcf void main

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a tool used to implement and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to support distributed computing where services have remote consumers. It features a runtime and a set of APIs in the .NET Framework for building connected, service-oriented applications. Services typically have a WSDL interface (Web Services Description Language) that any WCF client can use to consume the service, regardless of which platform the service is hosted on. WCF implements many advanced Web services (WS) standards such as WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, RSS Syndication Services, WS-Discovery, routing and better support for REST services.

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).