Re: events in WSE, Host as Windows service

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From: John Bristowe (johnb_at_quadrus.com)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:09:07 -0600

Raja,

Comments inline.

John

> I have to write an application that will run over network such that
> Server sends events to all the clients periodically. Clients can call
> on server process.
>
> 1) I know that Remoting supports .Net events and that Remoting
> server can be run as a Windows Service. In my architecture, I
> can not use IIS Web Server. As I understand "ASP.Net Web
> Service" in its current form does not support "events" and can
> not run as "Windows Service". Is that true ?

WSE supports a numerous message exchange patterns (MEPs) - including one-way
messages (AKA, notifications) - through the
Microsoft.Web.Services.Messaging.SoapClient class.

FWIW, the WSE pipeline can be hosted independently of the ASP.NET HTTP
runtime.

> 2) I read a few articles on MSDN. As I understand, in future
> webservices will support "events" as well as they can be hosted
> as Windows Service.
>
> 3) Does WSE 2.0 supports "Events" and "Windows Service
> hosting" in web services ?

Yes (see above) and yes (see above).

> If yes, can we use them from Visual Studio.Net 2003 ?

Absolutely!

> If no, will it be available with Whidbey release ?
>
> 4) As far as you know, when is Whidbey being released and
> how close the official beta be to the real release ?

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