WCF MSMQ hosted in IIS7 WAS not retrieving messages automatically until I MANUALLY hit the service

Question

I have seen several posts related to this but I have not found an answer to my problem

So I have a client sending messages to a MSMQ using WCF netmsmq binding. This works fine.

I have a web site hosted in my local IIS7 (Windows 7) exposing a WCF MSMQ endpoint.

When I publish a message from the client, the messages are not being consumed, they just stay in queue forever UNTIL, I manually browse the service, after that the messages are sent to the service hosted in IIS

So what do I need to do in order to consume the messages automatically by my WCF service hosted in IIS?

Note: I just noticed that after calling any WCF service hosted in my web applicaiton in IIS wakes up the service or something and suddenly the queue messages are consumed...

Client Configuration

  <system.serviceModel>
    <client>
      <endpoint name="Service.ServiceContracts.QueueLoggingService NET MSMQ"
                address="net.msmq://localhost/private/Service.WebHost/QueueLoggingService.svc"
                binding="netMsmqBinding"
                contract="Service.ServiceContracts.IQueueLoggingService">
      </endpoint>
    </client>
    <bindings>
      <netMsmqBinding>
        <binding exactlyOnce="true" durable="true" maxRetryCycles="15" receiveRetryCount="15">
          <security mode="None">
            <message clientCredentialType="None" />
            <transport msmqAuthenticationMode="None" />
          </security>
        </binding>
      </netMsmqBinding>
    </bindings>
  </system.serviceModel>

Server configuration

  <system.serviceModel>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true">
    </serviceHostingEnvironment>
    <services>
      <service name="Service.ServiceImplementations.QueueLoggingService">
        <endpoint 
                  address="net.msmq://localhost/private/Service.WebHost/QueueLoggingService.svc"
                  binding="netMsmqBinding"
                  contract="Service.ServiceContracts.IQueueLoggingService">
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
      </service>
    </services>
    <bindings>
      <netMsmqBinding>
        <binding exactlyOnce="true" durable="true" maxRetryCycles="15" receiveRetryCount="15">
          <security mode="None">
            <message clientCredentialType="None" />
            <transport msmqAuthenticationMode="None" />
          </security>
        </binding>
      </netMsmqBinding>
    </bindings>
  </system.serviceModel>

Things that I have tried:

Message Queuing service running
Message Queuing Triggers service running
Net.Msmq Listener Adapter service running
Net.Pipe Listener Adapter service running
Net.Tcp Listener Adapter service running
Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service service running
Distributed Transaction Coordinator service running
MSMQ Active Directory Domain Service Integration installed
MSMQ HTTP Support installed
MSMQ Triggers installed
MSMQ Multicasting support installed
WCF Non-HTTP Activation installed
WCF HTTP Activation installed
The AppPool is configured to start automatically

My Default Web Site contains the following configuration:

        <application path="/Service.WebHost" applicationPool="MyGenericAppPool" enabledProtocols="net.msmq, http">
            <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Some Path\Service.WebHost" />
        </application>

        <bindings>
            <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:80:" />
            <binding protocol="net.tcp" bindingInformation="808:*" />
            <binding protocol="net.pipe" bindingInformation="*" />
            <binding protocol="net.msmq" bindingInformation="localhost" />
            <binding protocol="msmq.formatname" bindingInformation="localhost" />
        </bindings>

schglurps schglurps · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-30T17:05:32

The autostart functionality is provided by AppFabric, so you must install it. Then, you will be able to use a command line similar to this one, in order to auto-start your WAS application :

appcmd.exe set app /app.name:YourApplication /serviceAutoStartEnabled:True /serviceAutoStartMode:All

WCF MSMQ hosted in IIS7 WAS not retrieving messages automatically until I MANUALLY hit the service

Client Configuration

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