Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I was told that WCF callbacks are not to be used in situations when the connection is kept for a long time (say, a week) even though the callback operations themselves are short (< 1s). Is this true? Where can I find more information on this?
Since I still got no reply, I’ll add my own thoughts.
To answer the actual question, no, WCF connections can be used for long-term connections. Nothing in the design prevents that by itself, and it’s not an anti-pattern.
However, since any kind of connection is unstable to a certain degree, it is required to handle (both intended and accidental) connection faults. Clients need to be able to reconnect, and servers should not choke on lost connections. In the specific case of WCF the server should also be able to persist and restore its data no matter when or how it is disposed.