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Configure Service: General Tab

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Use the General tab in the Configure Service dialog box to view the server, site, application, and virtual directory that includes the service, to enable metadata over HTTP, and to specify that default configuration settings be used for the service.

Tabs

Field

Description

General

This tab is displayed by default when the Configure Service dialog box is first displayed. Use this tab to specify whether the service uses default configuration settings from the server, site, application, or virtual directory scope, and to view the server, site, application, and virtual directory that include the service.

Monitoring

Select this tab to configure monitoring settings for the service. For more information, refer to Configure Service: Monitoring Tab.

Workflow Persistence

Select this tab to configure workflow persistence settings for the server. For more information, refer to Configure Service: Workflow Persistence Tab. This tab is only available for a workflow service.

Workflow Host Management

Select this tab to enable instance control, unload instances, or persist instances. For more information, refer to Configure Service: Workflow Host Management Tab. This tab is only available for a workflow service.

Auto-Start

Select this tab to configure auto-start settings for the service. For more information, refer to Configure Service: Auto-Start Tab.

Throttling

Select this tab to configure default service throttling settings for the service. For more information, refer to Configure Service: Throttling Tab.

Security

Select this tab to configure certificate settings for the service. For more information, refer to Configure Service: Security Tab.

Endpoints

Select this tab to configure the user-defined endpoints exposed by the service. For more information, refer to Configuration Dialog Box for an Endpoint.

Dialog Fields

Field

Description

Server name

This field displays the name of the server that contains the service.

Site name

This field displays the name of the site that contains the service.

Application name

This field displays the name of the application that contains the service.

Service name

This field displays the name of the service that the configuration applies to.

Enable metadata over HTTP

Click this button to enable an HTTP Get operation for metadata over the HTTP protocol. This ensures that when you browse to the service file with Internet Explorer, you will see the metadata for the service, and see which operations are available. The metadata is not stored, but is provided by the runtime.

Use defaults

Click this button to specify that the service uses configuration defaults at the server, site, application, or virtual directory level. The button will be unavailable if default behavior is already being used.

The fields in the General tab correspond to the behaviorConfiguration element in the application Web.config file. If the Use defaults button is clicked, the behaviorConfiguration element is set to “”, as shown in the following sample configuration, which shows the <services> element in an application’s Web.config file.

<services>
   <service name=”TutorialService” behaviorConfiguration=””
      <endpoint address=”” binding=”wsHttpBinding” contract=”IService” />
   </service>
</services>