ASP.NET CORE Web API inside a Worker Service

Question

Hi,

I would appreciate if someone can give me some info or references so I can have a ASP.NET Core Web API running as a Worker Service. Basically, a Web Service (without IIS) running as a Worker Service (Windows Service).

I looked a bit on all the usual sites but I can't find a concise example (although fully working).

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

you have two options.

create a standard asp.net core website and run the command line with srvany.exe

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/deployment/create-user-defined-service

create a asp.net core service that support asp.net core:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/windows-service?view=aspnetcore-6.0&tabs=visual-studio

Answer 2

Hi,

It looks like https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/windows-service?view=aspnetcore-6.0&tabs=visual-studio is the best ref. but I was hoping for a fully working example.

Anyway, I found a complete example at https://www.growin.com/blog/create-worker-service-api-door-net-core-3-1/. In my case it's targeting .Net 5 and I used the following as a test for a different port (it will be configurable).

                .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>  
                {  
                    webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();  
                    webBuilder.UseKestrel(opts =>  
                    {  
                        opts.ListenLocalhost(10005);  
                    });  
                })  

Also (just in case) I added

127.0.0.1 localhost

in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.

Thanks again