Hopefully you will be able to help me with this.
I have been interested in developing a n-tier web app, UI - WCF Service - Entity Framework Data Layer, so that my datalayer is not directly access from the web app.
I have created my data layer, WCF service and web app all in their own projects contained within one solution, and I am able to add a Service Reference (WCF Service) to the web app.
This all works fine, and I understand how it all works. However I am confused at how I would deploy this in a working environment? Currently, the web app has a service reference to the WCF service which in the test environment automatically opens up within its own domain/port (e.g. localhost:58307), then my web app in its own domain/port when running the solution.
In the web app, the web.config then contains a new section for <system.serviceModel>
with:
<client>
<endpoint address="http://localhost:58307/EstkService.svc" binding="wsHttpBinding"
bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding_IEstk" contract="EstkService.IEstk"
name="WSHttpBinding_IEstk">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
</client>
How would I go about creating my WCF Service, but referencing this from within the same domain as the web app? So that when I publish the project, I do not need to create a virtual directory which hosts the WCF service?
My reasoning for this is that I am working within a shared hosting environment, so I am unable to create the WCF Service as a separate Application in IIS.
Hopefully this makes sense!