Question

I have the following problem. There is a WCF service hosted within a windows service like this:

sHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(DataService));
_thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(sHost.Open));
_thread.Start();

Where DataService is a WCF Service Contract in the solution.

Several layers below the WCF service is a cache in a seperate assembly. But, every time a new connection/proxy to the WCF service is made, a new instance of the service is created. This results in a new instance of the cache being created in the DAL. So what I would like to do is have the WCF service and therefore all classes down the stack instanced once and only once (with some exceptions due to multiplicity requirements). So, the WCF service should be instanced and listen for new connections, rather than have DataService instanced every single time a new connection is made.

I hope this makes sense. How do I do this?

Many thanks,
Fugu

Answer 1

Instantiate DataService yourself and pass the instance to the ServiceHost constructor:

sHost = new ServiceHost(new DataService());