I recently ran into a concurrency issue with WCF on a customer's
system. I'll get into the details later (though not too much detail...
NDA ;) ), but it involved some testing of the various combinations of
InstanceContextMode and ConcurrencyMode settings for a WCF service. The
table below is an attempt to clarify the results...
InstanceContextMode |
ConcurrencyMode |
Resulting Behaviour |
PerCall |
Single |
|
Multiple |
Same as with ConcurrencyMode.Single |
|
PerSession |
Single |
|
Multiple |
|
|
Singlton |
Single |
|
Multiple |
|
It's
also worth noting that if you are using ServiceHost in an executable
assembly, that the Main() method not be marked with the single threaded
appartment attribute [System.STAThreadAttribute()]. This causes the
application to be single threaded, and the additional threads will not
be created regardless of the ConcurrencyMode.Multiple setting. Rather,
it should be decorated with the multi-threaded appartment attribute
[System.MTAThreadAttribute()].