Hosting WPF application within IIS

Question

I have created a WPF application (contains 8 projects). one project is of type (Class Library) ,this dll contains class which implement System.Web.IHttpHandler as the following.

public class ReportFileHttpHandler : IHttpHandler
{
    public bool IsReusable
    {
        get { return false; }
    }

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        // some code
    }
 }

this HttpHandler is designed to interrupt the IIS request and handle the requrest of the xml file.

I also created a web.config file which exists inside this dll.

 <system.webServer>
<handlers>
  <add verb="*" path="*.xml" type="ReportFileHttpHandler"  name="ReportFileHttpHandler"/>
</handlers>

Every thing is good here. I want to do the following : I want to test the code inside the "ReportFileHttpHandler" ,so I need to host the my WPF application within (inside) the IIS to make test. in this way I can write URL inside the Browser (which end with .xml) to execute the code in the method

public void ProcessRequrest(HttpContext context)

How can I Host the WPF application inside the IIS ?

any idea will be helpful, thank you

Answer 1

1. Create a webapplication in IIS say MyWPFApp.
2. Set physical path of application to directory where ReportFileHttpHandler assembly resides say C:\\xxx\\ReportFileHttpHandler\\bin\\Debug.
3. Make sure that ReportFileHttpHandler.dll and web.config are in same directory.
4. Browse url http://localhost/mywpfapp/myfile.xml in browser.
5. If you attach w3wp.exe process corresponding to app pool of your web application in Visual Studio, you should be able to debug your handler dll.