Custom binding with WCF

Question

Hello !!

I have a wcf service where i have to implement the call backs and also i need to host the wcf service on the IIS 6.0, since IIS6.0 doesnot support the net.tcp binding, i decided to go for the custom binding. The reasons for going for custom binding is that the service is accessed by different clients in different timezones. Using custom binding i can set the allowed clock skew time to other values other than the default one.

I have problem making the custom binding work for me. here is the server config file

<services>
  <service name="SchneiderElectric.PSCNet.Server.Services.PSCNetWCFService" behaviorConfiguration="Behaviors1">
    <host>
      <baseAddresses>
        <add baseAddress ="http://10.155.18.18:2000/PSCNet"/&gt;
      </baseAddresses>
    </host>
    <endpoint address="" binding="customBinding"    bindingConfiguration="pscNetBinding"
        contract="SchneiderElectric.PSCNet.Server.Contracts.IPSCNetWCFService"/>
  </service>
</services>    
<behaviors>
  <serviceBehaviors>
    <behavior name="Behaviors1">
      <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled = "true"/>
      <!--<serviceThrottling maxConcurrentCalls="2048" maxConcurrentSessions="2048" maxConcurrentInstances="2048" />
      <dataContractSerializer maxItemsInObjectGraph="2147483647" />-->
    </behavior>
  </serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>

and here the client config file

if i use the server and client on the same machine everything works fine. But as soon as i run the server and client on different machine i get the following error

"Could not connect to http://10.155.18.198:9000/e60ba5b3-f979-4922-b9f8-c820caaa04c2. TCP error code 10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 10.155.18.198:9000."

Can anyone in the community help me in this regard.

Answer 1

Can you show the part of the config where you're defining the customBinding? Maybe you just didn't paste that part in, but when you define a custom binding, you have to specify an encoding and a transport at minimum - something like this:

<bindings>
    <customBinding>
        <binding name="MyCustomTextTcpBinding">
            <textMessageEncoding />
            <tcpTransport />
        </binding>
    </customBinding>
</bindings>

Can you also paste in the part where you're defining your "pscNetBinding" bindingConfiguration?

Answer 2

Windows service is undoubtely a nice solution but i think a better would be a self hosting and you could have anytype of binding on it.