Wcf duplex communication with named pipe

Question

We are moving from .Net remoting to WCF. We were using IPC before(because we have performances consideration) when possible.

I tried to replicate the first "service" we were having on .Net remoting with WCF.

Before we were having some events on the server that have to be forwarded to the client. The client was giving a proxy to inform of such event.

In WCF, my understanding is that we have to use the DUPLEX communication, so I specified a CallBackContract on my ServiceContract .

But now when I'm trying to use it, I get such kind of errors:

Contract requires Duplex, but Binding 'NetNamedPipeBinding' doesn't support it or isn't configured properly to support it.

Did I do something wrong? Or we really cannot have two way communication(other than query-response)? I cannot believe this was possible in .Net Remoting but not in WCF?

EDIT

Here are my configurations

Server side:

Uri uri = new Uri("net.pipe://localhost/My/Service");
ServiceHost serviceHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(MyService),uri);

NetNamedPipeBinding binding = new NetNamedPipeBinding(NetNamedPipeSecurityMode.None);
binding.TransferMode= TransferMode.Streamed;
binding.Security.Transport.ProtectionLevel = ProtectionLevel.None;
binding.MaxBufferPoolSize = Int64.MaxValue;
binding.MaxBufferSize=Int32.MaxValue;
binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize=Int64.MaxValue;

ServiceEndpoint serviceEndpoint = new ServiceEndpoint(ContractDescription.GetContract(typeof(IMyService)), binding, uri);
serviceEndpoint.EndpointBehaviors.Add(new ProtoEndpointBehavior());

serviceHost.AddServiceEndpoint(serviceEndpoint);

Client side:

Uri uri = new Uri("net.pipe://localhost/My/Service");
EndpointAddress address = new EndpointAddress(uri);
InstanceContext context = new InstanceContext(callBack);
m_channelFactory = new DuplexChannelFactory<IMyService>(context, binding, endpoint);
m_channelFactory.Endpoint.EndpointBehaviors.Add(new ProtoEndpointBehavior());
m_channelFactory.Faulted += OnChannelFactoryFaulted;
m_innerChannel = m_channelFactory.CreateChannel();

The service declaration:

[ServiceContract(SessionMode = SessionMode.Required, CallbackContract = typeof(IMyServiceCallback))]
//Note I also tried without the SessionMode specified
    public interface IMyService: IService{...}

The service implementation:

[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.PerSession)] 
    public class MyService: IMyService, IDisposable{...}

Answer 1

WCF doesn't support duplex communication with transport mode streamed. Just use another transport mode.