Hi Adam!

Last time I checked there where no check for license in EPiServer.Data.dll (or dependent assemblies) so it should work to run them in a separate instance but you will never get any guaranties the they will not add license checks in the future.

If you update the database directly you will run into problem because DDS does not use a SQL Dependencies.

You will probably need to add EPiServer.Data, EPiServer.Framework, EPiServer.Data.Cache and EPiServer.Events to you service, sprinkle with some configuration (connectionStrings, WCF for EPiServer Events, etc).

At least for the first version of the DDS, Paul Smith published s Unit Test project that run separatly. It can be downloaded here.

Please let us know the results of your tests!

Thanks Fredrik - I'll have a look and let you know how we get on.

Hi, I wrote on similar topic some time ago - http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Valdis-Iljuconoks/Dates/2011/10/If-all-you-need-is-just-Dynamic-Data-Store/

Thanks Valdis - I am working with Joel on this (who has commented on your blog post).

I think we are running into structure map issues as we are using EPiServer 7 (so the episerver 7 dlls for data etc).

Have you been able to get this working against an EPiServer 7 instance of DDS?

Thanks,

Adam

Great. This was used in CMS6. I'll check what's the case in v7. StructureMap needs to be initialized beforehand using any base classes as most of the interfaces are retrieved via ServiceLocator.

Try this code:

var container = new Container();
var factory = new SqlDatabaseFactory();
container.Configure(ce => ce.For<IDatabaseHandler>().Use(factory.CreateDefaultHandler));
ServiceLocator.SetLocator(new StructureMapServiceLocator(container));

// if you need caching - replace `null'
DataInitialization.InitializeFromCode(container, factory, null);
var store = typeof(SampleModel).GetStore();

NB! <episerver.dataStore> element for v7 is optional. If you still add it - be sure to clear providers list before adding - otherwise you will get "Key has already been added" type of exception.

Hi Valdis,

Well that certainly seems to be doing the trick! Now we are successfully writing to DDS outside of an EPiServer website.

I wondered why I was getting those key already added errors and didn't realise that the <episerver.datastore> section was optional in v7.

Thanks very much for your help. It all looks so simple when you know what you are doing!

Can you get data from the DDS using an internal webservice?

I seem to be getting zero items back but using the same code on a normal page I get results.

Jon