I'm having a little problem with a WCF client. First, allow me to explain and give you details.
I'm currently developing a system, and I was thinking in separate the main application because I designed it to be updated with dlls. So I found MEF, and began to read a lot about it. But there was problem with MEF, it locks the file, no write. Then I found shadow copy. So now I placed the client in another AppDomain in the main Application. I've read that communication cross domains is possible through NET Remoting, so I made research and done it with WCF.
The main Application is the host, it loads the assembly in a new domain and starts the client. As the client is a DLL, there is no AppConfig file to load bindings, endpoints. I've created a class that helps me with that, so the config is added programatically.
Finally, it works!
But there is a little thing I don't think is ok. In the client, when the instruction DuplexClientBase.Open() is executed, it takes 20 seconds to open. I think is not OK 'cause when I move the client to a EXE (remember is a DLL and the config is added programatically) it doesn't take all that time.
Maybe is something wrong in the config, but I can't find it. So here are the souce code files. First, this is the App.config file, when the client is in a console application:
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<netTcpBinding>
<binding name="TcpBinding" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00"
receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" transactionFlow="false"
transferMode="Buffered" transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"
hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" listenBacklog="10"
maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxBufferSize="65536" maxConnections="10"
maxReceivedMessageSize="65536">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00"
enabled="false" />
<security mode="Transport">
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows" protectionLevel="EncryptAndSign" />
<message clientCredentialType="Windows" />
</security>
</binding>
</netTcpBinding>
<wsDualHttpBinding>
<binding name="HttpBinding" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00"
receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" bypassProxyOnLocal="false"
transactionFlow="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" />
<security mode="Message">
<message clientCredentialType="Windows" negotiateServiceCredential="true"
algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</wsDualHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="net.tcp://localhost:8080/ProtoServicio/EPServicioTcp"
binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="TcpBinding"
contract="TestServicio.IServicio" name="TcpBinding">
<identity>
<userPrincipalName value="OlinzerLaptopV\Olinzer" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
<endpoint address="http://localhost:8081/ProtoServicio/EPServicioHttp"
binding="wsDualHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="HttpBinding"
contract="TestServicio.IServicio" name="HttpBinding">
<identity>
<userPrincipalName value="OlinzerLaptopV\Olinzer" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
And now, this is the code that creates the binding and endpoint:
internal static Binding GetBinding()
{
WSDualHttpBinding binding = new WSDualHttpBinding();
TimeSpan span = new TimeSpan( 0, 1, 0 );
binding.Name = "HttpBinding";
binding.CloseTimeout = span;
binding.OpenTimeout = span;
binding.ReceiveTimeout = span;
binding.SendTimeout = span;
binding.BypassProxyOnLocal = false;
binding.TransactionFlow = false;
binding.HostNameComparisonMode = HostNameComparisonMode.StrongWildcard;
binding.MaxBufferPoolSize = 524288;
binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 65536;
binding.MessageEncoding = WSMessageEncoding.Text;
binding.TextEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
binding.UseDefaultWebProxy = true;
binding.ReaderQuotas = new XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas();
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxDepth = 32;
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxStringContentLength = 8192;
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = 16384;
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxBytesPerRead = 4096;
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxNameTableCharCount = 16384;
binding.ReliableSession = new ReliableSession();
binding.ReliableSession.Ordered = true;
binding.ReliableSession.InactivityTimeout = span;
binding.Security.Mode = WSDualHttpSecurityMode.Message;
binding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = MessageCredentialType.Windows;
binding.Security.Message.NegotiateServiceCredential = true;
binding.Security.Message.AlgorithmSuite = SecurityAlgorithmSuite.Default;
return binding;
}
The file created by the code only contains the Http Endpoint. Maybe adding the tcp endpoint could make the diference, but, I have no idea how to make it. The function above is called by the constructor of the ClientClientBase class.
ServiceModel.DuplexClientBase<Servicio> MyClient = new ...<Servicio>(new InstanceContext(this), GetBinding(), GetEndpoint());
Feel free to notify me if you need anything else.
You are doing cross AppDomain communication within single process and you are using WsHttpBinding? Do you understand how big overhead this has? It also highly increases complexity of your application deployment. It is probably not source of your main problem but I would start with:
WsDualHttpBinding with NetNamedPipeBinding To diagnosing your issue start with WCF tracing and check which operation on both client and server takes a long time - there can be problem with some security resolving because your setting uses message security.