I have a WCF running on Windows. I’d like to deploy it – or at least test it – on a development server running SUSE and Mono.
After asking about WCF examples in Mono on the IRC channel #monodev at GimpNet I’ve download the examples from the olive module in the subversion.
No examples actually uses a Web.config file to create the service bus instead inherit from ServiceHost and create binding, so on, manually. Now I want to know, does Mono uses Web.config files or should I create bindings and such by hand?
Right now, running my service on MonoDevelop and hitting just http://localhost:8080/ (or http://localhost:8080/ServiceName.svc – doesn’t seem to matter) gives me an error I can’t identify:
Server Error in '/' Application
Value must be positive integer.
Description: HTTP 500. Error processing request.
Stack Trace:
System.ArgumentException: Value must be positive integer.
at System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Check (Int32 value) [0x0002a] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.Runtime.Serialization/System.Xml/XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.cs:94
at System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.set_MaxBytesPerRead (Int32 value) [0x00000] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.Runtime.Serialization/System.Xml/XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.cs:69
at System.ServiceModel.Configuration.BasicHttpBindingElement.OnApplyConfiguration (System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding binding) [0x00043] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel.Configuration/BasicHttpBindingElement.cs:214
at System.ServiceModel.Configuration.StandardBindingElement.ApplyConfiguration (System.ServiceModel.Channels.Binding binding) [0x00030] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel.Configuration/StandardBindingElement.cs:139
at System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ConfigUtil.CreateBinding (System.String binding, System.String bindingConfiguration) [0x00063] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel.Configuration/ConfigUtil.cs:81
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.ApplyConfiguration () [0x00110] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel/ServiceHostBase.cs:320
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostBase.InitializeDescription (System.ServiceModel.UriSchemeKeyedCollection baseAddresses) [0x0001c] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel/ServiceHostBase.cs:368
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost.InitializeDescription (System.Type serviceType, System.ServiceModel.UriSchemeKeyedCollection baseAddresses) [0x0001d] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel/ServiceHost.cs:160
at System.ServiceModel.ServiceHost..ctor (System.Type serviceType, System.Uri[] baseAddresses) [0x00006] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel/ServiceHost.cs:60
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SvcHttpHandler.EnsureServiceHost () [0x0007d] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel.Channels/SvcHttpHandler.cs:207
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SvcHttpHandler.ProcessRequest (System.Web.HttpContext context) [0x00000] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.ServiceModel/System.ServiceModel.Channels/SvcHttpHandler.cs:150
at System.Web.HttpApplication+<Pipeline>c__Iterator2.MoveNext () [0x00cdf] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpApplication.cs:1362
at System.Web.HttpApplication.Tick () [0x00000] in /usr/src/packages/BUILD/mono-2.6.4/mcs/class/System.Web/System.Web/HttpApplication.cs:928
Version information: Mono Runtime Version: 2.6.4 (tarball Mon Jul 5 13:53:45 UTC 2010); ASP.NET Version: 2.0.50727.1433
Any tips on what should I do?
There has been some work on web.config support for WCF in Mono in February/March this year, judging from the mono-dev mailing list traffic, but this has not been shipped yet. You may experiment with building a development version of mono yourself (outdated guide, Mono switched to git a few days ago), or just create the biding manually. The later is certainly easier to do.