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I have always learned that never use using statement when calling WCF Service like this using (Service.YourClientProxy client = new Service.YourClientProxy()) { var time = client.Time(); } So I ...

I would like some clarity around the following (apologies in advance if this is a stupid question) Am working on some existing code which calls a WCF service. This code instantiates a WCF service ...

This was a telephone interview question I had: Is there a time when Dispose will not be called on an object whose scope is declared by a using block? My answer was no - even if an exception happens ...

I'm trying to connect an application (the client) to an exposed WCF service, but not through the application configuration file, but in code. How should I go about doing this?

We are using WCF service on the client side we are planning to explicitly close the connection It seems there are more then one way of closing Sample1: In the finally block of the WCF service ...

I'm attempting to extend this answer on SO to make a WCF client retry on transient network failures and handle other situations that require a retry such as authentication expiration. Question: What ...

Consider the following code which is typcial of many ChannelFactory examples: WSHttpBinding myBinding = new WSHttpBinding(); EndpointAddress myEndpoint = new EndpointAddress( ConfigurationSettings....

I'm writing a service that will only get calls from the local host. Performance is important so I thought I'd try the NetNamedPipeBinding instead of NetTcpBinding and see If I could see any noticeable ...

I have implemented ClientBase to use WCF to connect to a service. I'm then calling a method on the channel to communicate with the service. base.Channel.CalculateSomething(); Is this call thread safe ...

Simple question: I want to open a URL using the Default Browser, so I just do Process.Start(url). However, I noticed that this returns an IDisposable object. So now I wonder if I have to dispose it? ...

I understand that any time I am instantiating a class that implements IDisposable, I should use the using keyword in order to ensure that it's disposed of properly. Like so: using (SecureString s = ...

When a single ClientBase<T> instance is used for multiple WCF service calls, it can get a channel into a faulted state (ie. when the service is down). I would like to heal the channel ...

I've been wrapping all the code that invoke WCF calls within an using statement in a thought that the object will be disposed properly. When I'm googling for an exception "Http service located at .. ...

When you create and use a Web Service proxy class in the ASP.Net framework, the class ultimately inherits from Component, which implements IDisposable. I have never seen one example online where ...

We get "The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state." message when we close the application. Can ...