How to develop a WCF Service to automatically manage other related WCF services hosted as Window Service?

Question

Hello Guys,

Kindly help me in architecting a solution which is required for my ongoing project. I have developed some WCF Services hosted as windows services which I did and working fine so far. Now I am asked to develop a master WCF type of service which should be intelligent enough to manage all other WCF service for possible corruption/errors and can repair them and restart. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I do something similar here.

• Create a Dictionary<key, ApplicationDomain> collection into your main program
  • Key: something unique for each application domain, like a Guid or a System.Type.
• That ApplicationDomain class exposes a internal property to access your AppDomain proxy (that which inherits a MarshallByRef class)
• Load your WCF host into main program, so you'll get access to that collection
• Every time your service get some access, you just need to take that key, access your proxy and do anything you want within your service hoster.

Keypoint: Your service must have access to all your service hosts.