WCF Service works with TCP Binding, but not with dualHttpBinding
Hello!
So, I have been working with a simple WCF service that I developed for the past month or so, and it is suddenly giving me problems. The service gives a WPF application access to a database stored on a server. Currently the database is stored locally, but it should be using a HTTP binding to communicate with the service as eventually the database will be stored elsewhere.
In any case, this is how the service works: it receives a request from the client asking for a list of records of a certain type from a database. It then generates the list of objects and sends the list back. This has been working since the service was first built, but now there seems to be a problem. When the list contains larger than 13 entities, the client does not seem to receive the object. The client throws a "TimeoutException" and stops functioning, while the service just keeps on going.
In an attempt to try and find the problem, we switched the binding over to a TcpNetBinding, which seems to work just fine, thus we know that the service works and there is a problem with our binding...we just can't seem to see what the problem is with our binding.
The connection between the client and host are done by using the ChannelFactory, where T is my service contract. We have created the binding programmatically, as opposed to using a WCF settings file, until we can get things working. The server side code to create the service is as follows:
//create new service
_service = new AirtimeAdminService();
_admin = new ServiceHost(typeof(AirtimeAdminService),new Uri("net.tcp://localhost:8008/AirtimeAdminService"));
//** TEMPORARY WORKING CODE **
NetTcpBinding tcpbind = new NetTcpBinding();
_admin.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IAirtimeAdminService),tcpbind,"net.tcp://localhost:8008/AirtimeAdminService");
//** CODE THAT SERVICE SHOULD WORK WITH **
//_admin = new ServiceHost(typeof(AirtimeAdminService), new Uri("http://localhost:8080/AirtimeAdminService"));
//WSDualHttpBinding httpBind = new WSDualHttpBinding();
//_admin.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IAirtimeAdminService),httpBind, "http://localhost:8080/AirtimeAdminService");
_admin.Open();
As you can see, the working code is only different by the type of binding being used (along with the address). The client uses the following to create a connection:
EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress("net.tcp://localhost:8008/AirtimeAdminService");
NetTcpBinding binding = new NetTcpBinding();
//create proxy by instantiating ChannelFactory
_channelFactory = new ChannelFactory<IAirtimeAdminService>(binding, address);
//create channel
_host = _channelFactory.CreateChannel();
The above code works with the TcpNetBinding, but I cannot seem to find a way to get it functioning using wsDualHttpBinding. Any ideas?
