WCF how to set infinite inactivity timeout

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Fritz Hilgemann

Hello,

I have a WCF service and client (duplex) where the client is mainly waiting
for events via the callback. Unfortunately, it suffers from timing out,
since it does not call a dummy function once in a while. So, I would like to
change the inactivity timeout to infinite.
All I found how to do this in the configuration file. BUT: I am
intentionally not using a config file. Instead, I code the service behaviour
directly.
tcpBinding.ReliableSession.InactivityTimeout =
The point is, it accepts a TimeSpan, but appearently, Timespan does not
support "infinite".
Any ideas how to accomplish this infinite behaviour programatically?

Regards,
Fritz
 
Hello,

in ou project we use the following Binding and works perfectly.
<netTcpBinding>
<binding name="netTcpBinding"
receiveTimeout="Infinite">
<reliableSession inactivityTimeout="00:00:10"
enabled="true" />
</binding>
</netTcpBinding>

This is equal to the following code

binding.ReliableSession.Enabled = true;
binding.ReliableSession.InactivityTimeout =
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
binding.ReceiveTimeout = TimeSpan.MaxValue;
 
Fritz said:
Hello,

I have a WCF service and client (duplex) where the client is mainly waiting
for events via the callback. Unfortunately, it suffers from timing out,
since it does not call a dummy function once in a while. So, I would like to
change the inactivity timeout to infinite.
All I found how to do this in the configuration file. BUT: I am
intentionally not using a config file. Instead, I code the service behaviour
directly.
tcpBinding.ReliableSession.InactivityTimeout =
The point is, it accepts a TimeSpan, but appearently, Timespan does not
support "infinite".
Any ideas how to accomplish this infinite behaviour programatically?

Regards,
Fritz
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TImeSpans can be huge. Are you saying that an inactivity timeout of, e.g., a
thousand years would somehow not work for you here?
 
Hello! do you specify this information on the clientside config file?
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the binding must be the same on client and server. It is locatet in
<system.serviceModel><Bindings>
please use the WCF-configuration tool to edit these settings
 
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