Sharing Console Application object to Self-Host WCF Service

Question

I need to share my application statistics via a wcf service. I'm able to self-host my wcf service but ServiceHost object constructor is default leaving me to unable to initialize other member variables of my service.

Sample:

public interface IService
{
   //some operations here 
}

public class Service : IService
{
  object myObject;
  //implementation of IService
}

myObject is my console application object ( List ) and I wanted to make my service to be able to look into it. Is there any way I can reference it on my WCF Service?

Answer 1

You could use this approach to the get handle on your ServiceHost instance in your service implementation code:

ServiceHostBase base = OperationContext.Current.Host;

Now you have a link to to your service host - anything publicly available and accessible can be read (preferably not set, since there might be many service class instances running).

Answer 2

You could provide an instance of the service yourself by creating a custom IInstanceProvider.