STI_OpenTicketsDisplay

A read only display for the STI tickets program using WCF

This is a multi-part application. Part 1 is a WCF service to be run on IIS which exposes a JSON representation of open tickets in the STI tickets database. Part 2 is a web client used to visualize the JSON.

WCF Service Install Instructions:

1. Make sure Tickets database is available on the network
2. Install IIS on an application server
3. Install the dotnet framework, WCF Services, and HTTP Activation on the application server
4. Right click a website in IIS and choose to Add Application
5. Give the application the allias of TicketsWcf and select a physical path on the server
6. Open the solution with visual studio and build it
7. Copy the Web.config file and the TicketsService.svc file to the root of the application
8. Copy TicketsWcfJson.dll file to a subfolder called bin
9. Edit the Web.config file and correct the connection string to the database
• Example: add name="TicketsConnection" connectionString="connection string here" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"
10. Visit the page and make sure JSON is displayed.
• Example http:/192.168.1.1/ticketswcf/TicketsService.svc/GetOpenTickets