How can I tell whether a WCF service is hosted in a Console app?

Question

I have a WCF service under development, and often switch between hosting in a Windows Service, and hosting in a Console app. The service and console app share one config file, so how else can I tell, in my WPF client, if the service is hosted in the console app?

Answer 1

bool windowsServiceHosted = !Environment.UserInteractive;

More hacky (shouldnt be necessary above should work)

private bool? _ConsolePresent;
public bool ConsolePresent {
    get {
        if (_ConsolePresent == null) {
            _ConsolePresent = true;
            try { int window_height = Console.WindowHeight; }
            catch { _ConsolePresent = false; }
        }
        return _ConsolePresent.Value;
    }
}

bool windowsServiceHosted = !ConsolePresent;

If you need to know from client then you'll need to expose a bool WindowServicesHosted propetry from your server that uses one of the above server side.