In his ‘Programming WCF Services’ book, Juval Lowy explains that WCF does not provide a mechansim for managing service callbacks, and this must be managed by the service and client explicitly. If the service attempts to invoke a callback which has been closed on the client, an ObjectDisposedException will be thrown on the service channel. … Read more
No, a reliable session will time out just like any other session, too. The main question really is: why on earth do you want your sessions to be “endless” ?? If you really need this, you need to crank up the timeouts on the session. The point of a reliable session is that the caller … Read more
I believe AppInitialize() is the method you’re looking for. Here’s an article on using it to initialise Castle Windsor in a WAS hosted WCF service: Castle Windsor and non-HTTP Protocol WCF Services The essence of the article is, instead of using Application_Start() which won’t get called in WAS: protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { … Read more
WCF has gotchas in a few areas with streaming (I’m looking at you, MTOM1) due to a fundamental issue in how it fails to perform preauthentication the way most people would think that should work (it only affects subsequent requests for that channel, not the first request) Ok, so this is not exactly your issue … Read more