Question

I’m using the WCF RIA Services Beta with Silverlight 3.0 and I want to be able to configure the timeout from the client. I know that the underlying technology is WCF and the default timeout seems to be 60 seconds as I would expect.

Is there an easy way to control this and other WCF settings?

My first thought is to try the DomainContext OnCreated hook point which was mentioned in the RIA Services Overview pdf file that was available prior to RIA Services going beta. The MSDN documentation for the DomainContext object no longer mentions the method although it is still there? I’m not sure if this is a case of the documentation lagging behind or an indication that I shouldn’t use this extensibility point.

namespace Example.UI.Web.Services
{
    public sealed partial class CustomDomainContext
    {
        partial void OnCreated()
        {
            // Try and get hold of the WCF config from here
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

http://blogs.objectsharp.com/CS/blogs/dan/archive/2010/03/22/changing-timeouts-in-wcf-ria-services-rc.aspx

Either one line after domain context creation:

((WebDomainClient<LibraryDomainContext.ILibraryDomainServiceContract>)this.DomainClient).ChannelFactory.Endpoint.Binding.SendTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 5, 0);

or a partial class

public partial class LibraryDomainContext
{
   partial void OnCreated()
   {
      if(DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode(App.Current.RootVisual))
         ((WebDomainClient<LibraryDomainContext.ILibraryDomainServiceContract>)this.DomainClient).ChannelFactory.Endpoint.Binding.SendTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 5, 0);
   }
}