Service returning services list ?

Hi,
I'd like to build a WCF service which will read the service.model section
from my host config file and return me a service collection.

I'm reading the config successfully but ServicesSection or
ServiceElementCollection are not serializable objects.

Is it possible to return these kind of collection through WCF service ?

Any help would be most welcome.

Thks.

Client can read meta data of the service directly to learn/use it
Arkady

"Franck" <Franck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'd like to build a WCF service which will read the service.model section
> from my host config file and return me a service collection.
>
> I'm reading the config successfully but ServicesSection or
> ServiceElementCollection are not serializable objects.
>
> Is it possible to return these kind of collection through WCF service ?
>
> Any help would be most welcome.
>
> Thks.

Hi,
The point is that I'm tryin to build some kind of WCF Services explorer.
So my client has no idea of services url or else.

I'd like to list all services available from host in order to my client to
select some
and generate proxies for.


"Arkady Frenkel" wrote:

> Client can read meta data of the service directly to learn/use it
> Arkady
>
> "Franck" <Franck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A8D8B93B-23FB-4183-B848-4ED9359D2418@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to build a WCF service which will read the service.model section
> > from my host config file and return me a service collection.
> >
> > I'm reading the config successfully but ServicesSection or
> > ServiceElementCollection are not serializable objects.
> >
> > Is it possible to return these kind of collection through WCF service ?
> >
> > Any help would be most welcome.
> >
> > Thks.
>
>
>

OK, second part when you already know URL ( from enumerating config files or
somewhere else ) you can take Metadata Explorer project from
http://www.idesign.net/idesign/Deskt...dex=5&tabid=11

Arkady

"Franck" <Franck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news94F4ED2-8F75-4EAB-ADAA-742990D2148E@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> The point is that I'm tryin to build some kind of WCF Services explorer.
> So my client has no idea of services url or else.
>
> I'd like to list all services available from host in order to my client to
> select some
> and generate proxies for.
>
>
> "Arkady Frenkel" wrote:
>
>> Client can read meta data of the service directly to learn/use it
>> Arkady
>>
>> "Franck" <Franck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A8D8B93B-23FB-4183-B848-4ED9359D2418@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> > I'd like to build a WCF service which will read the service.model
>> > section
>> > from my host config file and return me a service collection.
>> >
>> > I'm reading the config successfully but ServicesSection or
>> > ServiceElementCollection are not serializable objects.
>> >
>> > Is it possible to return these kind of collection through WCF service ?
>> >
>> > Any help would be most welcome.
>> >
>> > Thks.
>>
>>
>>

easy way would be to publish all service urls in a shared file. Maybe they
reg themselfs at startup. Then the client can just download the file and
enum it. Naturally, this kind of thing could be a security concern as you
don't want to publish more targets then required.

--
William Stacey [C# MVP]


"Franck" <Franck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Hi,
| The point is that I'm tryin to build some kind of WCF Services explorer.
| So my client has no idea of services url or else.
|
| I'd like to list all services available from host in order to my client to
| select some
| and generate proxies for.
|
|
| "Arkady Frenkel" wrote:
|
| > Client can read meta data of the service directly to learn/use it
| > Arkady
| >
| > "Franck" <Franck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:A8D8B93B-23FB-4183-B848-4ED9359D2418@microsoft.com...
| > > Hi,
| > > I'd like to build a WCF service which will read the service.model
section
| > > from my host config file and return me a service collection.
| > >
| > > I'm reading the config successfully but ServicesSection or
| > > ServiceElementCollection are not serializable objects.
| > >
| > > Is it possible to return these kind of collection through WCF service
?
| > >
| > > Any help would be most welcome.
| > >
| > > Thks.
| >
| >
| >