Issue adding a link to a WCF service hosted on a Windows service

I am creating a WCF Service Interface for an existing Windows Service Process. The purpose of the WCF interface is to provide a "Command Channel" for implementing administrative capabilities for a Windows service. There are several OperationContract methods defined that are designed to retrieve information and control the behavior of a Windows service far beyond the Start / Stop / Pause capabilities of Services applets.

This WCF service is designed to participate in an existing process. So starting a WCF service in IIS or ServiceHost is not an option.

My problem is that although ServiceHost is not throwing an error in Open (), I cannot get the "WCF Test Client" (or anything else) to find the service.

This is my first WCF service and I haven't been able to find examples or patterns that match what I'm trying to do. Therefore, I have no illusions, and I would not be surprised if I did something wrong. Also, not that I have "portSharingBinding = false". I had it, but it was an error indicating another service that I don't want to run. Is port separation required?

Configuration information:

<system.serviceModel>  
  <bindings>  
    <netTcpBinding>  
      <binding  name="PortBinding" portSharingEnabled="false" />  
    </netTcpBinding>  
  </bindings>  
  <services>  
    <service name="NameChanged.ServiceManager.CommandService">  
    <endpoint address="net.tcp://localhost"  
              binding="netTcpBinding"  
              bindingConfiguration="PortBinding"  
              name="ServiceManagerCommandChannel"  
              contract="NameChanged.ServiceManager.ICommandService" />  
    </service>  
  </services>  
</system.serviceModel>  

      

        
        
        
      

    

I have also tried the no config route using the following code:

  ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(CommandService)))  
  host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(ICommandService),  
                           new NetTcpBinding(), "net.tcp://localhost:8000");  
  host.Open();  

      

        
        
        
      

    

Also, there is no bug on Open (). But there is no success in connecting to the service.

Thanks for your time
Jim