Vista - Clients, WCF service and windows forms application

Hi there, I’m very new to WCF and I would like to know if what I need to
do its possible thru this new technology.



My goal is to have a client/server (distributed) application that will
do the following:



I want to have clients, the service, and a windows forms application.

When a client calls the service and executes a method (like
Proxy.DOSomething) I want the service to actually execute that, and I
want the windows application to react based on values returned by the
execution of the DOSomething method in the server.



Can it be done?

Any direction?





Thanks.

Hello, Mike!

Generally, it is possible.
There are several ways to accomplish that:
- merge service and winforms app into one, e.g. open wcf service host within
winforms app
- if wcf service has to reside within windows service then you'll have to
use inter-process communication.

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With best regards, Vadym Stetsiak.
Blog: http://vadmyst.blogspot.com

You wrote on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:40:30 -0400:

M> Hi there, I'm very new to WCF and I would like to know if what I need
M> to do its possible thru this new technology.

M> My goal is to have a client/server (distributed) application that
M> will do the following:

M> I want to have clients, the service, and a windows forms application.

M> When a client calls the service and executes a method (like
M> Proxy.DOSomething) I want the service to actually execute that, and I
M> want the windows application to react based on values returned by the
M> execution of the DOSomething method in the server.

M> Can it be done?

M> Any direction?

M> Thanks.

Hi Mike,

This is pretty much the turnkey scenario for Web Services in general, and
WCF in specific.

If you look through the various samples you can download for WCF, probably
80%+ of them do exactly what you just described.

The WCF samples can be found here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751514.aspx

--
Chris Mullins

"Mike" <mike@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi there, I'm very new to WCF and I would like to know if what I need to do
its possible thru this new technology.

My goal is to have a client/server (distributed) application that will do
the following:

I want to have clients, the service, and a windows forms application.
When a client calls the service and executes a method (like
Proxy.DOSomething) I want the service to actually execute that, and I want
the windows application to react based on values returned by the execution
of the DOSomething method in the server.

Can it be done?
Any direction?


Thanks.