Create a new webpage using a WCF service
- by sweeney
Hello,
I'd like to create WCF operation contract which consumes a string, produces a public webpage and then returns the address of this new page.
[ServiceContract(Namespace = "")]
public class DatabaseService
{
[OperationContract]
public string BuildPage(string fileName, string html)
{
//writes html to file
//returns public file url
}
}
This doesn't seem like it should be complicated but i cant figure out how to do it. So far what i've tried is this:
[OperationContract]
public string PrintToFile(string name, string text)
{
FileInfo f = new FileInfo(name);
StreamWriter w = f.AppendText();
w.Write(text);
w.Close();
return f.Directory.ToString();
}
Here's the problem. This does not create a file in the web root, it creates it in the directory where the webdav server is running. When i run this on an IIS server it seems to do nothing at all (at least not that i can tell). How can I get a handle to the webroot programmatically so that i can place the resultant file there and then return the public URL? I can tack on the domain name after the fact without issue so if it only returns the relative path to the file that's fine.
Thanks,
brian
