Question

Sorry for asking a question about something I don’t know much about, but I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to get this working.

So, I have a WCF service that is hosted on IIS and seems to be working insomuch that I can “see” it on the network by going to http://servername/MyService.svc in a browser.

That .svc looks like:

<% @ServiceHost Service="Foo.Bar" %>

The relevant code looks like:

    [ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06Services/Notification/03")]
    public interface IBar
    {
        [OperationContract(Action = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/TeamFoundation/2005/06/Services/Notification/03/Notify", ReplyAction = "*")]
        [XmlSerializerFormat(Style = OperationFormatStyle.Document)]
        void Notify(string eventXml, string tfsIdentityXml);
    }

and:

public class Bar : IBar
{
    public void Notify(string eventXml, string tfsIdentityXml)
    {
        // Just some test output to see if it worked
        var path = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "tfs.txt");
        File.WriteAllText(path, tfsIdentityXml + eventXml);
    }
}

That’s all been built and the ensuing .dll put into the bin dir in the site root in IIS.

I now want to subscribe via bissubscribe.exe (or a similar method) to TFS check-in events. I tried doing something like:

bissubscribe /eventType CheckinEvent 
  /address http://servername/MyService.svc
  /deliveryType Soap 
  /server mytfsserver

But nothing; it doesn’t even look like there was log activity. So keeping in mind I know nothing about WCF, what am I doing wrong? I imagine the address param is one thing; am I not supposed to point it to the .svc?

Answer 1

I have created a blog post how you can use WCF in combination with the Event Services of TFS: http://www.ewaldhofman.nl/post/2010/08/02/How-to-use-WCF-to-subscribe-to-the-TFS-2010-Event-Service-rolling-up-hours.aspx