How to open all my service''s hosts dynamically

On the post you referenced, did Ed Pinto's suggestion help at all? I think you will still have to write code to create ServiceHosts, but I think this can be done rather abstractly using Ed's approach, allowing you to add new service configurations to App.config without needing edit the code.

-James

Well, you could webhost it. Then the services you have in config would be run for you by the w3p process. But then you wouldn't be using a console app to be your server. If you require using a console app to be the server, I don't think there's anyway to open servicehosts via config. You have to write code for that.

As for what functionality is analogous to remoting, I'm not really sure, since I don't have experience with remoting.

HTH,

James

Maybe something like this (without proper exception handling):

public class ServiceHostGroup<TServiceHost>
where TServiceHost : ServiceHost
{
static List<TServiceHost> hosts = new List<TServiceHost>();

public static void StartServices()
{
Configuration conf =
ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location);

ServiceModelSectionGroup svcmod =
(ServiceModelSectionGroup)conf.GetSectionGroup("system.serviceModel");

foreach (ServiceElement el in svcmod.Services.Services)
{
Type svcType = Type.GetType(el.Name);

if (svcType == null)
throw new Exception("Invalid Service Type " + el.Name + " in configuration file.");

OpenHost(svcType);
}

}

public static void CloseServices()
{
foreach (TServiceHost hst in hosts)
{
hst.Close();
}
}

private static void OpenHost(Type t)
{
TServiceHost hst = (TServiceHost)Activator.CreateInstance(
typeof(TServiceHost), new object[] { t });
hst.Open();

hosts.Add(hst);
}
}

Hm.

ServiceHostGroup.StartServices();
...
ServiceHostGroup.CloseServices();

works like a charm with something like

This definitely works.

ServiceHostGroup<ServiceHost>.StartServices();

ServiceHostGroup<ServiceHost>.CloseServices();

If you still have problems, pls contact me offline.