How to run WCF service in a dotnetnuke

Question

I am trying to run WCF service under DNN.
I created a new WCF service web site project and set output to C:\inetpub\...\dotnetnuke\bin
I also removed web.config from that project.
Then I have created on console project and try to add service reference but I get the following error:

An error occured while attempting to find services at 'http://localhost:5847/MyService/Service.svc

I removed code from old web config to dnnweb config <system.serviceModel> but still don't work. What I want to do is to be able to access web service with url like

localhost/dotnetnuke/portal/mywebservice...

and not as default

localhost:XXXX/...

This is from my dotnetnuke web.config

<system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="Service" behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehavior">        
        <endpoint address="localhost/dotnetnuke/service.svc" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="IService">         
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost"/>
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehavior">          
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>          
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>

If I type full address in browser

http://localhost/dotnetnuke/desktopmodules/com.demo.service/service.svc

I get following error page:

The type 'Service', provided as the Service attribute value in the ServiceHost directive, or provided in the configuration element system.serviceModel/serviceHostingEnvironment/serviceActivations could not be found.

Answer 1

Even if you do get this to work, you will have nothing but trouble calling any of the DNN APIs as your request will not have the full DNN context.

A much easier solution is to use the Services Framework. It was released initially in 6.2 with and MVC2 based implementation, and will soon be updated in 7.0 with a WebAPI based implementation.

You can find several posts about using Services Framework here.