WCF Proxy need to be closed explicitly and if you are using the using() statement, you have the possibility of loosing the original exception.
You can find details about this issue in the following posts.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/b95b91c7-d498-446c-b38f-ef132989c154
https://geekswithblogs.net/marcel/archive/2007/05/01/112159.aspx
Marc Gravell presented a great idea to have a wrapper so as to overcome this issue.
http://marcgravell.blogspot.com/2008/11/dontdontuse-using.html
But that will work only with the proxies got using Service reference.
What if you are getting your service proxy using : factory.CreateChannel().
This blog is about the solution for that.
Here is the full code for the proxy.
public interface IDisposableWrapper : IDisposable
{
T BaseObject { get; }
}
public class DisposableWrapper : IDisposableWrapper where T : class
{
public T BaseObject { get; private set; }
public DisposableWrapper(T baseObject) { BaseObject = baseObject; }
protected virtual void OnDispose()
{
(BaseObject as IDisposable).Dispose();
}
public void Dispose()
{
if (BaseObject != null)
{
try
{
OnDispose();
}
catch (Exception ex){
//Log if required
}
}
BaseObject = default(T);
}
}
public class ClientWrapper : DisposableWrapper
where TProxy : class
{
public ClientWrapper(TProxy proxy) : base(proxy) { }
protected override void OnDispose()
{
if ((this.BaseObject as IClientChannel).State == CommunicationState.Faulted)
{
(this.BaseObject as IClientChannel).Abort();
}
else
{
(this.BaseObject as IClientChannel).Close();
}
}
}
public static class WCFExtensions
{
public static IDisposableWrapper Wrap(
this TProxy proxy)
where TProxy : class
{
return new ClientWrapper(proxy);
}
}
Client Code:
ChannelFactory factory = new ChannelFactory(new WSHttpBinding(), new EndpointAddress("http://localhost:8731/TestWcfServiceLibrary/Service1/"));
IService1 proxy = factory.CreateChannel();
using (var proxy = proxy.Wrap())
{
//Call the methods the following wat
string s1 = proxy.BaseObject.GetData(10);
}
Happy coding.!