Home/ Questions/Q 85717
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-10T22:07:59+00:00

I have a WCF service which will be hosted under IIS. Now I have

  • 0

I have a WCF service which will be hosted under IIS. Now I have some resources(Connections) that I create within service constructor. I need to free up those resources when IIS which is hosting the service shuts down or resets. These are not the resources that I will be clearing out every time client disconnects but they are application wide resources which will only free up when the service itself or IIS shuts down.

I saw another post where someone mentioned that he has created a listener to capture the events of ServiceHost. Can someone help me with figuring out how to get a handle of the ServiceHost and capture the IIS reset or IIS shutdown event and free up my resources in WCF service?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Well, I’m out of ideas, but I think that this article contains your answer in the chapter: ‘Accessing ServiceHost in IIS’. It seems you need to build your own HostFactory because out of the box IIS uses the standard HostFactory and practically controls the creation and destruction of Hosts. By providing your own HostFactory you can add your own code to control the initialization and destruction…

    • 0