I have a .NET website with a WCF service. How do I access the current operations context of my service? One possible work around is to just make a call to the service within the app…but that seems sloppy and redundant; especially when the service and website are the same application.
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The goal is to create a notification system via Silverlight and WCF. When a user creates a game, they’ll need to wait for a player. When another player decides to join a game via the game list page, which is just standard HTML, the creator must be notified that someone wants to play. User pushes the “Join” game button, server does a page postback, and talks to the WCF service. WCF then pushes the message to the silverlight interface of the game creator.
Now I could just create a web reference to my own application, but I’m looking to bypass that step, since they’re both on the same server; same app for that matter.
After much research and a clearer understanding of WCF I’ve now found my answer. I was using DuplexService binding (active session/instance retained on both client/server). Accessing Duplex session instances is not possible through a standard aspx web page. You must have a client (silverlight or windows app) that can maintain an active session to the server, in case the server pushes any messages to the client.