wsDualHttpBinding error in Win7 - wcf

I have one server/client app where server is hosted in IIS server, and many clients will connect to that IIS server, Dual binding is use to broadcast message from server to clients.
I am develop in my Vista machine which has no error, however when we test the client app on client PC, which is using Windows 7, I got error.
First time I have this error:
HTTP could not register URL
http://+:80/Temporary_Listen_Addresses/cc6f2e30-ff08-4bfc-8397-d67630337a9c/
because TCP port 80 is being used by another application. Exception
handled on main UI thread 1.
according to solution from internet, I have added a clientBaseAddress in client config file (No change and never add clientBaseAddress in server config), now I get second error:
HTTP could not register URL http://+:91/NightlyBuild/NonVer/Communication/. Your
process does not have access rights to this namespace (see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details). Exception
handled on main UI thread 1.
Ok I found some comments said need to run the client app in administrator mode, I do that as well, I do not get the previous two errors, but this time I get timeout error after the screen freeze for 5 minutes.
Timeout error
The open operation did not complete within the allotted timeout of
00:05:00. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion
of a longer timeout. Exception handled on main UI thread 1.
Below is the client config that I am using when I hits second error.
<wsDualHttpBinding>
<binding name="WSDualHttpBinding_ICommunicationService"
closeTimeout="00:05:00" openTimeout="00:05:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:05:00"
bypassProxyOnLocal="false" transactionFlow="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferPoolSize="0" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true"
clientBaseAddress="http://remote-server:8001/Communication/">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
<reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" />
<!--<security mode="Message">
<message clientCredentialType="Windows" negotiateServiceCredential="true" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>-->
<security mode="None" />
</binding>
Endpoint in client config:
<client>
<endpoint address="http://remote-server:90/Communication/CommunicationService.svc" binding="wsDualHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSDualHttpBinding_ICommunicationService" contract="CommunicationService.ICommunicationService" name="WSDualHttpBinding_ICommunicationService">
</endpoint>
</client>
Really run out of idea, any comments?

The client "HTTP could not register..." error occurs because the specified url is not registered to the user you run the process under.
To solve this temporarily, you can use the HTTPNamespaceManager.exe program to modify the list of URL access reservations on the local computer. Get it here: PaulWh's Tech Blog

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WCF web service method dying on https, works on http

I have an old WCF web service method which execute 10-20 minutes.
It's written on vb.net 4.0
I use SoapUI application to test it, and self written vb.net app which consume it.
On my localhost when I run it in Debug mode with IIS Express, I'm getting results back in both application.
But on QA web server, under https, I'm getting error back:
SoapUI error: Error getting response; java.net.SocketException: Connection reset.
From my web client: "An error occurred while receiving the HTTP response to https://qa.organization.com/services/Blah.svc. This could be due to the service endpoint binding not using the HTTP protocol. This could also be due to an HTTP request context being aborted by the server (possibly due to the service shutting down). See server logs for more details." Inner Exception: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive. Inner Exception: Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
Web engineer run trace on web server, got and error "An operation was attempted on a nonexistent network connection".
Please advise what else I can check in order to fix this issue?
From web service web.config:
<binding name="Blah_1"
closeTimeout="00:12:00"
openTimeout="00:12:00"
receiveTimeout="00:30:00"
sendTimeout="00:30:00"
allowCookies="false"
bypassProxyOnLocal="false"
hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="2147483647"
maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647"
maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
messageEncoding="Text"
textEncoding="utf-8"
transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="1000"
maxStringContentLength="2147483647"
maxArrayLength="2147483647"
maxBytesPerRead="2147483647"
maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
<security mode="Transport">
<transport clientCredentialType="None"
proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName"
algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
Add the protocol mapping in the config file:
<protocolMapping>
<add binding="basicHttpsBinding" scheme="https" />
</protocolMapping>

timeoutexception or default connection limit on wcf?

I firstly launched my subscriber for my WCF service and proceed to publish a posting from my publisher. My subscriber is able to receive the posting.
Secondly I closed my FIRST subscriber and open it again to subscribe to the same service which is so called the SECOND subscriber that has subscribed to the service. And once again, it is able to receive a posting.
Once I repeat this for the third time, there would be a exception of
The message could not be transferred within the allotted timeout of 00:01:00. There was no space available in the reliable channel's transfer window. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.
Summary :
On first client, SUBSCRIBED , everything works fine
Closes first client
On the cilent AGAIN , (meaning second connection on the same service(?)) , everything works fine
Closes "second client"
Opens the client for the THIRD time, error occurs
From what I have researched so far, I have seen that in this question, it mentioned that the default connection limit is 2?
WCF Service Throttling
Is that the issue that is causing my error? IF yes, is it possible to adjust the limit of the connection and how?
Pretty new in the WCF area and welcome anybody to give me their opinion.
Thanks!
EDIT
Tried using UseSynchronizationContext = false on my client. As everytime a posting is sent, my PostReceived() method for my subscriber includes opening a popup windows form containing the information of the posting. When using UseSynchronizationContext = false, the windows form would not be able to open properly(an error here).
Anyone has any idea how to fix that or have any alternate solutions?
EDIT 2
Been reading around lots of WCF connection related stuffs and found out that most people are trying to toggle the maxConnections variable or related in their config files. My question is the only config files I have is in my client and none for my Service project. Is it necessary for me to add a config file for my service project?
As the "connection limit"(?) is 2, I tried the method of unsubcribing it when the client exits the application but that doesn't work and gives me and error. I have posted a question on the error that I received.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8395525/objectdisposedexception-on-wcf-service
Config Codes for Client side added :
<system.serviceModel>
<diagnostics performanceCounters="All" />
<bindings>
<wsDualHttpBinding>
<binding name="WSDualHttpBinding_IPostingContract" clientBaseAddress="http://localhost:8000/wcfClient/" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:10:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00"
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="http://localhost:8888/PostingContract/Posting"
binding="wsDualHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSDualHttpBinding_IPostingContract"
contract="IPostingContract" name="WSDualHttpBinding_IPostingContract">
<identity>
<userPrincipalName value="##" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
Would someone advise me if I have done anything wrong for my service part with regards to the behaviors or the config files. Appreciate a million. Thanks!
EDIT 3
Manage to play around with the service behavior. For the behavior, I changed the InstanceContextMode to single.
InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.Single
and that actually allowed me to launch more than 2 connections of my windows form app. However if I do that, If I had launch 2 connections beforehand, for the third connection it will receive 3 popups, and subsequently for the forth connection, it will receive 4. When it is suppose to receive 1.
would that help to add UseSynchronizationContext = false on the client subscriber class
for e.g.
[CallbackBehavior(ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode.Reentrant,
UseSynchronizationContext = false)]
The reason might be of the dealocking callback
similiar post here WCF: Having trouble with one-way callbacks

WCF cannot connect to endpoint after successfully adding service reference

I've successfully published a WCF service on our production server. I can navigate to the page and see the default WCF page.
I can add the service via "Add Service Reference" to a client on my computer. I can also "Update Service Reference" with no problems what so ever.
The service was confirmed to work on my local computer with and without the client by running the default debugger that comes with VS2010.
When trying to call a service method (from the server hosted service), I receive this exception..
There was no endpoint listening at that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.
InnerException...
{"The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found."}
I've also tried running a client on the server itself to see if I can connect but I get the same error.
I even tried just deploying the basic WCF service that's created for you when you create a WCF service library (very basic), changed nothing, deployed successfully, and get the same error.
What am I doing wrong? I've went down the road of IIS configurations, SSL certificates, etc but nothing seems to fix it. I feel as though I'm missing something very basic here.
EDIT CLIENT CONFIG...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://SERVER_NAME.DOMAIN_NAME.com/TestService/TestService.Service1.svc"
binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"
contract="ServiceReference1.IService1" name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>
Some pitfalls to check:
1) Check if the service URL is correct on your configuration files. This includes the protocol. It happened to me recently: the .config file had "http://" and the webserver was only accessible through HTTPS.
2) Disable the "required client certificate" setting on IIS.
3) If your service is inside an asp.net application, check if there are any restrictions of Authentication / Authorization in place. Allow anonymous access to your .SVC

Browser connects to WCF service but not my WCF client. What can be the reason?

On a production server (Windows Server 2003 SP2) I can connect to a remote WCF service with Internet Explorer 8: When I browse to the URL http://www.domain.com/Service.svc (where my service listens) I get the expected info page of the service displayed. Connection settings in Internet Explorer only specify "auto detect", proxy settings are disabled.
If I start a console application (built with WCF in .NET 4.0) on the same server which also tries to connect to the same WCF service it fails telling me that no endpoint was available listening on http://www.domain.com/Service.svc.
Configuration of the WCF client:
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<wsHttpBinding>
<binding name="WSHttpBinding_IMyService" 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"
allowCookies="false">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192"
maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00"
enabled="false" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="Windows" negotiateServiceCredential="true"/>
</security>
</binding>
</wsHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://www.domain.com/Service.svc"
binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSHttpBinding_IMyService"
contract="Service.IMyService" name="WSHttpBinding_IMyService" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
<configuration>
With these settings I can communicate successfully with the remote service from my development machine.
Looking around for other options I found that I can specify to use the Internet Explorer proxy settings with:
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy usesystemdefault="true" />
</defaultProxy>
</system.net>
It didn't work and I am not sure if I understood this setting really correctly. (My hope was that the WCF client will adopt the "autodetect" setting of Internet Explorer and then connect the same way to the service like the installed IE.)
I also had toggled the useDefaultWebProxy setting in the binding configuration between true and false with no success.
Now I am asking for help what I can do? Which settings might be wrong or missing? What could I test and how can I get more detailed error messages to better identify the problem?
Thank you in advance!
Edit:
Stack in Innerexception is saying:
System.Net.WebException: Connection to remote server could not be established
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Connection failed since the host didn't answer after a certain time span or the connection was faulted since the connected host didn't answer.
Although Internet Explorer can connect to the service without specifying a proxy address but only enabling the "auto detect" feature this doesn't seem to work with my WCF client when setting <proxy usesystemdefault="true" />. (Documentation says: This will pickup the Internet Explorer settings. But it doesn't work.) Finally the customer gave me a concrete proxy address and I have changed the binding in my client configuration the following way:
Changed: useDefaultWebProxy="false" (instead of true)
Added: proxyAddress="http://10.20.30.40:8080" (Edit2: Not only IP-address! The prefix with http:// is important! Otherwise it will throw new exceptions, see the follow-up question below.)
With this the WebException and SocketConnection disappeared and the Client seems to connect to the Service but I am having now the next issue when calling the first service operation. I will put this in an new question.
Edit: Here is the follow-up question:
Strange exception when connecting to a WCF service via a proxy server
Edit2: According to the answer in the follow-up question it is important to prefix the proxyAddress with http. (changed my answer now)
Did you maybe just introduce a typo into your address on the client??
address="http://www.domain.com/Service.scv"
Shouldn't that be
address="http://www.domain.com/Service.svc"
(.svc instead of .scv at the end) (confirmed as no typo in reality)
Also, this address would indicate your *.svc file is in the root of that machine - is that really the case?? Normally in IIS, your address will be made up of machine name, virtual directory where the *.svc file resides, and the *.svc file itself, so something like:
http://www.domain.com/ServiceDirectory/Service.svc
I am not sure how you are hosting your service, IIS?
I didn't see anything wrong really in the configuration, other than
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="Windows" negotiateServiceCredential="true"/>
</security>
If you say that when you type in the address in the IE you see the service, then it is leading me to believe that it is security setting that are wrong. Try removing the security block form the client config file or where ever you have it and see if that works....
If it does, we might have it narrowed it down...
The issue here may have been as simple as the case of true vs True
<proxy usesystemdefault="True" />

WCF Service , how to increase the timeout?

Might seem like a silly question, but everything in WCF seems a lot more complicated than in asmx, how can I increase the timeout of an svc service?
Here is what I have so far:
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="IncreasedTimeout"
openTimeout="12:00:00"
receiveTimeout="12:00:00" closeTimeout="12:00:00"
sendTimeout="12:00:00">
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
And then my endpoint gets mapped like this:
<endpoint address=""
binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="IncreasedTimeout"
contract="ServiceLibrary.IDownloads">
<identity>
<dns value="localhost" />
</identity>
</endpoint>
The exact error I am getting:
The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:00:59.9990000. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.
In the WCF Test Client, there is a config icon that contains the run time configuration of my service:
As you can see its not the same values as I've set for it? What am I doing wrong?
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IDownloads" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="">
<extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement="Never" />
</transport>
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
In your binding configuration, there are four timeout values you can tweak:
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="IncreasedTimeout"
sendTimeout="00:25:00">
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
The most important is the sendTimeout, which says how long the client will wait for a response from your WCF service. You can specify hours:minutes:seconds in your settings - in my sample, I set the timeout to 25 minutes.
The openTimeout as the name implies is the amount of time you're willing to wait when you open the connection to your WCF service. Similarly, the closeTimeout is the amount of time when you close the connection (dispose the client proxy) that you'll wait before an exception is thrown.
The receiveTimeout is a bit like a mirror for the sendTimeout - while the send timeout is the amount of time you'll wait for a response from the server, the receiveTimeout is the amount of time you'll give you client to receive and process the response from the server.
In case you're send back and forth "normal" messages, both can be pretty short - especially the receiveTimeout, since receiving a SOAP message, decrypting, checking and deserializing it should take almost no time. The story is different with streaming - in that case, you might need more time on the client to actually complete the "download" of the stream you get back from the server.
There's also openTimeout, receiveTimeout, and closeTimeout. The MSDN docs on binding gives you more information on what these are for.
To get a serious grip on all the intricasies of WCF, I would strongly recommend you purchase the "Learning WCF" book by Michele Leroux Bustamante:
Learning WCF http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GNuqUJq%2BL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg
and you also spend some time watching her 15-part "WCF Top to Bottom" screencast series - highly recommended!
For more advanced topics I recommend that you check out Juwal Lowy's Programming WCF Services book.
Programming WCF http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41odWcLoGAL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg
The best way is to change any setting you want in your code.
Check out the below example:
using(WCFServiceClient client = new WCFServiceClient ())
{
client.Endpoint.Binding.SendTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 1, 30);
}
The timeout configuration needs to be set at the client level, so the configuration I was setting in the web.config had no effect, the WCF test tool has its own configuration and there is where you need to set the timeout.
Got the same error recently but was able to fixed it by ensuring to close every wcf client call.
eg.
WCFServiceClient client = new WCFServiceClient ();
//More codes here
// Always close the client.
client.Close();
or
using(WCFServiceClient client = new WCFServiceClient ())
{
//More codes here
}