Using ArcObjects in a WCF Method called in a Windows Service

SamuelHenderson — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:45:12 GMT

Hello everyone 🙂

How do I add ArcGIS License Checking to a Windows Service? When I go to Project->Add ArcGIS License Checking and specify the desired licenses to check for the Windows Service fails to start with the following error: [ATTACH=CONFIG]19537[/ATTACH]

Removing the ArcGIS License checking allows the service to start and run, but then I run into problems elsewhere...

Once running the Windows Service basically sits and waits for a remote request to come from a webserver and when it receives this request it launches a WCF class that contains the actual ArcObject code needed to generate a shapefile (it connects to an ArcSDE workspace ... all that fun stuff). The problem is that without having the ArcGIS license checking my ArcObjects code generates a COM Exception of 0x80040111 which is of course the exception you get when you try to run ArcObjects without having initialized a license.

I thought about trying to add the ArcGIS License Checking to the WCF Class, but that class has no Sub Main().

What should I be doing?

Re: Using ArcObjects in a WCF Method called in a Windows Service

TimSexton1 — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:42:54 GMT

I'm trying to do the same thing. Did you ever get this working?

Thanks!

[Edit] -- My main issue was building a WCF service with 32bit ArcObjects as dependencies on a 64 bit machine. I had to use this command "corflags /32BIT+ /FORCE WcfSvcHost.exe" to allow the WcfSvcHost to debug in 32bit mode.

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