WCF Configuration Manager
Note: Cross posted from Sajay.
Finally after about 3 releases of WCF we got a configuration service sample on MSDN. I haven't exactly played with the bits myself but did get a good review from some folks who wanted to use it for service management. This does allow a degree of configuration management for your WCF services and I believe can even be backed up to a datastore.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx
- Configuration Service 2.03 is a reusable set of shared libraries that provides central configuration management for .NET applications, ASP.NET Applications, and WCF service hosts. It provides the ability to cluster multiple nodes, with load balancing and application-level failover across remote nodes; as well as a centralized configuration management user interface, cluster and endpoint status monitoring, and dynamic configuration updates across clusters without having to deploy new configuration files or stop/start active nodes.
- The Configuration Service was born out of a practical need to make it easier to manage the .NET StockTrader composite application in distributed, clustered environments. The concepts were then abstracted such that any .NET application/WCF service host can implement the Configuration Service via the shared libraries provided. This is possible based on the use of base classes and .NET reflection within the shared libraries. For those familiar with WCF, it should only take a few hours to walk through the tutorial and test it out. It is designed such that existing WCF services can easily be integrated into a WCF service host (IIS, Windows Application, Console Application, or Windows NT Service) that implements the Configuration Service.
And yes there is a stock trader application along with it :).