Run Web app separately from Service Fabric

Question

I have Service Fabric and web service in it. If I run the Service Fabric locally, from Visual Studio, I can debug my service, and it is very convenient.

However, it takes a lot of time to deploy my code changes to local fabric. I am sure there should be an option to start my service separately from Service Fabric. It seems I need to update my method 'Main', so that it starts the service differently in case of dev environment.

Any ideas what exactly should be changed?

Answer 1

Oleg Karasik's response helped to shape the solution. I do not use any Service Fabric specific features yet, so it worked out.

The only code I needed to modify was the class Program:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.ServiceFabric.Services.Runtime;
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

namespace MyNameSpace
{
    internal static class Program
    {
        private static void Main()
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("Fabric_ApplicationName")))
            {
                StartInIISExpress();
            }
            else
            {
                StartInServiceFabric();
            }
        }

        private static void StartInIISExpress()
        {
            WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder()
                    .UseStartup<Startup>()
                    .Build().Run();
        }

        private static void StartInServiceFabric()
        {
            < original code of the method Main >                   
        }
    }
}