WPF ServiceHost Templates

Updated Wiki: Home

michelebustamante — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:01:24 GMT

Project Description
This project includes two Visual Studio 2008 templates to kick-start hosting WCF services in a WPF application, in addition to webcasts describing how to use them.

WPF ServiceHost Application Template
This Visual Studio 2008 template creates a new solution with two projects: a sample WPF client configured to host a sample WCF service, and a Console client to test calling the WPF-hosted service. The accompanying webcast walks you through the installation and explains the features provided by the generated solution.

Download the code here: WPF ServiceHost Application Template
Download the supporting video here: Hosting Services in WPF Clients

WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template
This Visual Studio 2008 template creates a new solution with a WCF application service that publishes events to a WPF client application that subscribes to those events. The WPF client also hosts a WCF subscriber service. The accompanying webcast walks you through the installation and explains the features provided by the generated solution.

Download the code here: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template
Download the supporting video here: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template

Related Projects
You can also go to the CodePlex site http://wcfguidanceforwpf.codeplex.com to find a related whitepaper, code samples and a mini webcast series providing WCF guidance to WPF developers.

Contact Info
Please try to use the discussion board for this project for any project-related questions and feedback. If you have a question not project-related you can email me, Michele Leroux Bustamante, at mlb@dasblonde.net

New Post: Service Instance creation

michelebustamante — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:51:08 GMT

Hi Awais,

Yes, I have since changed my tune and now always move initialization for WPF clients into the Window.Loaded event...I will update these templates within the week to reflect this change. Thanks for the reminder! Sometimes hard to remember all the places you have to go back when you learn a new best practice!

-Michele

New Post: Service Instance creation

awaisbk — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:24:07 GMT

Hi, Thanks for the great template and webcast.

I was running a sample created by using ServiceHost template. I have noticed that you are creating the instance of ClientService in constructor of main window. It works fine, if all goes well on client side, but in case there is an issue, this results in incorrect error propogation.

If anything goes wrong in contructors of WPF windows, framework treats it as an Xaml parsing error. To correctly propogate error on WPF side, we should initialize services in 'Loaded' event.

You can recreate the above scenario, by creating a project from the template, dont' change anything, just make sure that you run it by user rights, not administrator. This will make sure the service is not able to register port 8010 as a listener port. Now, once ser vice host starts, it will give Xaml parsing error. If you move service instiation to 'Loaded' event of MainWindow, running the project again would give proper error and correctly point out, what went wrong.

Just a thought, since you are going for the best practice. :-)

Cheers, keep up the good work.

- Awais Bin Khalid

Updated Wiki: Home

michelebustamante — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:22:35 GMT

Download the code here: WPF ServiceHost Application Template
Download the supporting video here: Hosting Services in WPF Clients
- Watch it on Soapbox

Download the code here: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template
Download the supporting video here: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template
- Watch it on Soapbox

Updated Release: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template (Jun 09, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:39 GMT

This release includes a setup program (MSI) that installs a WPF Publish and Subscribe Application template for your Visual Studio 2008 environent. The accompanying webcast walks you through the installation and explains the features provided by the generated solution.

Released: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template (Jun 09, 2009)

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:39 GMT

Updated Release: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template (Jun 09, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:27:05 GMT

Updated Release: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template (Jun 09, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:57:16 GMT

Created Release: WPF Publish and Subscribe Application Template (Jun 09, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:11:27 GMT

This release includes a Visual Studio Content Installer (VSI) to install the WPF Publish and Subscribe Application template for your Visual Studio 2008 environent. The accompanying webcast walks you through the installation and explains the features provided by the generated solution.

Updated Release: WPF ServiceHost Template (Jun 06, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:18:30 GMT

This release includes a Visual Studio Content Installer (VSI) to install the WPF ServiceHost Application template for your Visual Studio 2008 environent. The accompanying webcast walks you through the installation and explains the features provided by the generated solution.

Released: WPF ServiceHost Template (Jun 06, 2009)

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:18:29 GMT

Updated Release: WPF ServiceHost Template (Jun 06, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:31:52 GMT

Created Release: WPF ServiceHost Template (Jun 06, 2009)

MicheleBustamante — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:50:40 GMT