My Worker Role is Alive!

Have been experimenting with hosting a WCF service in a Worker Role for days and I am so happy that I finally managed to get it working on the Cloud. I basically relied on  the WindowsAzureRoleCommunication lab that came with the Windows Azure Training Kit for guidance.

It was silly (and greedy) of me to try to host a HTTP endpoint in a Worker Role. Now, that it is on TCP, everything works fine. Sigh! Still a lot to learn ^_^'

Anyway, I didn't like the idea of defining the service programmatically, so I proceeded to use the app.config file in the Worker Role but included these lines of code in the host instead:

RoleInstanceEndpoint tcpEndpoint = RoleEnvironment.CurrentRoleInstance.InstanceEndpoints["tcpIn"];

_svcHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(ExpenseService),
new Uri(String.Format("net.tcp://{0}/ExpenseService",
tcpEndpoint.IPEndpoint)));

where tcpIn is defined in the csdef file.