Start, Stop, Console

[valentin tihomirov]

The Web services are nice but they are hard to debug -- I need to observe
the trace messages in the console (I do not like to have a special debug
application to see the output window.) Additionally, I do not undesrtand the
lifetime cycle -- when the service starts and stops. I would like to control
it simply: start it when I like and stop it by pressing "any key" in the
console.

 

[Jesse Houwing]

Hello valentin,

The Web services are nice but they are hard to debug -- I need to
observe the trace messages in the console (I do not like to have a
special debug application to see the output window.) Additionally, I
do not undesrtand the lifetime cycle -- when the service starts and
stops. I would like to control it simply: start it when I like and
stop it by pressing "any key" in the console.

What you'd like and what is possible are two completely separate things.
I'd suggest you read a bit of the documentation concerning webservices (they
live in IIS basically) and then accept that's how they work. You can write
trace messages to the event viewer or to a database if needed.

Jesse

 

[Mr. Arnold]

The Web services are nice but they are hard to debug -- I need to observe
the trace messages in the console (I do not like to have a special debug
application to see the output window.) Additionally, I do not undesrtand
the lifetime cycle -- when the service starts and stops. I would like to
control it simply: start it when I like and stop it by pressing "any key"
in the console.

You can set the service.timeout = -1 // infinity

That way, you can possibly debug a solution in the .Net IDE that's calling
upon the Web service and the solution will not timeout on you.