Creating the WCF service hosted in Windows service

Open Visual Studio and create a project Windows Service.

Open the designer of Service1.cs

Change the name of the service to your own choice:

Right-click on window and select "Add Installer" in the popup:

Edit the properties of the component serviceInstaller1 - set up a DisplayName.

In the component properties of serviceProcessInstaller1 set the type of account for the service as LocalSystem.

Add references in the project to System.ServiceModel and FastReport.Service.dll:

Create an application configuration file:

Copy the following text into the new app.config file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
 <appSettings>
 <!-- path to folder with reports -->
 <add key="FastReport.ReportsPath" value="C:\Program files\FastReports\FastReport .NET Professional\Demos\Reports" />
 <!-- name of connection string for reports -->
 <add key="FastReport.ConnectionStringName" value="FastReportDemo" />
 <!-- Comma-separated list of available formats PDF,DOCX,XLSX,PPTX,RTF,ODS,ODT,MHT,CSV,DBF,XML,TXT,FPX. 
 You can delete any or change order in this list. -->
 <add key="FastReport.Gear" value="PDF,DOCX,XLSX,PPTX,RTF,ODS,ODT,MHT,CSV,DBF,XML,TXT,FPX" />
 </appSettings>
 <connectionStrings>
 <add name="FastReportDemo" connectionString="XsdFile=;XmlFile=C:\Program Files\FastReports\FastReport .NET Professional\Demos\Reports\nwind.xml"/>
 </connectionStrings>
 <system.web>
 <compilation debug="true" />
 <membership defaultProvider="ClientAuthenticationMembershipProvider">
 <providers>
 <add name="ClientAuthenticationMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.ClientServices.Providers.ClientFormsAuthenticationMembershipProvider, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" serviceUri="" />
 </providers>
 </membership>
 <roleManager defaultProvider="ClientRoleProvider" enabled="true">
 <providers>
 <add name="ClientRoleProvider" type="System.Web.ClientServices.Providers.ClientRoleProvider, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" serviceUri="" cacheTimeout="86400" />
 </providers>
 </roleManager>
 </system.web>
 <!-- When deploying the service library project, the content of the config file must be added to the host's 
 app.config file. System.Configuration does not support config files for libraries. -->
 <system.serviceModel>
 <services>
 <service behaviorConfiguration="FastReportServiceBehavior" name="FastReport.Service.ReportService">
 <endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="FastReport.Service.IFastReportService">
 <identity>
 <dns value="localhost" />
 </identity>
 </endpoint>
 <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
 <host>
 <baseAddresses>
 <add baseAddress="http://localhost:8732/FastReportService/" />
 </baseAddresses>
 </host>
 </service>
 </services>
 <behaviors>
 <serviceBehaviors>
 <behavior name="FastReportServiceBehavior">
 <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True" />
 <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="True" />
 </behavior>
 </serviceBehaviors>
 </behaviors>
 <bindings>
 <basicHttpBinding>
 <binding messageEncoding="Mtom"
 closeTimeout="00:02:00" openTimeout="00:02:00"
 receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:02:00"
 maxReceivedMessageSize="67108864" maxBufferSize="65536"
 transferMode="Streamed">
 <security mode="None">
 <transport clientCredentialType="None" />
 </security>
 </binding>
 </basicHttpBinding>
 </bindings>
 </system.serviceModel>
 <startup>
 <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.6.2" />
 </startup>
</configuration>

Go to the editor of Service1.cs and add the line:

using System.ServiceModel;

Modify the class of service so it looks like:

public partial class ReportService : ServiceBase
{
 ServiceHost reportHost;

 public ReportService()
 {
 InitializeComponent();
 }

 protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
 {
 if (reportHost != null)
 reportHost.Close();
 reportHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(FastReport.Service.ReportService));
 reportHost.Open();
 }

 protected override void OnStop()
 {
 reportHost.Close();
 reportHost = null;
 }
}

You can install the service using the command line utility InstallUtil.exe, which comes with .NET Framework, for instance:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\InstallUtil.exe "C:\Program Files\FRRep.Net\WCFWindowsService\WCFWindowsService\bin\Debug\WCFWindowsService.exe"

And you can start the service with the command:

net start ReportService

Open a web browser and check the address http://localhost:8732/FastReportService/, which was set in app.config in baseAddress. You can change the folder and port to your own choice.

Commands to stop and to uninstall the service:

net stop ReportService

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\InstallUtil.exe /u "C:\Program Files\FRRep.Net\WCFWindowsService\WCFWindowsService\bin\Debug\WCFWindowsService.exe"