Question

I run a self-hosted WCF service which I want to protect with self-signed SSL certificate. For that to work I need to bind this SSL certificate with certain port. There are couple ways of doing it:

1. According to this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733791.aspx I can use netsh and it works but I would like not to have dependencies on the netsh and do everything from the .NET code.

2. So I found the following snippet:

       using (ServerManager manager = new ServerManager())
       {
           Site site = manager.Sites.FirstOrDefault(i => i.Applications.Cast<Application>().Any());
           Application app = site.Applications.Cast<Application>().First();
           site.Bindings.Add(":*:PORTN", cert.GetCertHash(), store.Name);
           manager.CommitChanges();
       }
   

It works, however this required IIS to be installed. Otherwise I’m getting the following exception:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID
{2B72133B-3F5B-4602-8952-803546CE3344} failed due to the following
error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG))..

So, question is – is there any way to accomplish this inside managed code, but without having to install IIS?

Answer 1

Found the correct answer to my question: Binding an SSL certificate to a port programmatically

Instead of using managed classes like ServerManager I would need to rely on P/Invoking native API such as HttpSetServiceConfiguration.