ChannelFactory: creating and disposing - wcf

Question

I have written an Sdk that is used by a WPF client, and takes care of calling WCF services and caching. These WCF services are called using the ChannelFactory, so I don't have service references. To do that, I created a factory that handles opening and closing ChannelFactory and ClientChannel as follows:
public class ProjectStudioServiceFactory : IDisposable
{
private IProjectStudioService _projectStudioService;
private static ChannelFactory<IProjectStudioService> _channelFactory;
public IProjectStudioService Instance
{
get
{
if (_channelFactory==null) _channelFactory = new ChannelFactory<IProjectStudioService>("ProjectStudioServiceEndPoint");
_projectStudioService = _channelFactory.CreateChannel();
((IClientChannel)_projectStudioService).Open();
return _projectStudioService;
}
}
public void Dispose()
{
((IClientChannel)_projectStudioService).Close();
_channelFactory.Close();
}
}
And each request I call like:
using (var projectStudioService = new ProjectStudioServiceFactory())
{
return projectStudioService.Instance.FindAllCities(new FindAllCitiesRequest()).Cities;
}
Although this works, it's slow because for every request the client channel and factory is opened and closed. If I keep it open, it's very fast. But I was wondering what the best practise would be? Should I keep it open? Or not? How to handle this in a correct way?

Answer 1

Thanks Daniel, didn't see that post. So I guess that the following may be a good approach:
public class ProjectStudioServiceFactory : IDisposable
{
private static IProjectStudioService _projectStudioService;
private static ChannelFactory<IProjectStudioService> _channelFactory;
public IProjectStudioService Instance
{
get
{
if (_projectStudioService == null)
{
_channelFactory = new ChannelFactory<IProjectStudioService>("ProjectStudioServiceEndPoint");
_projectStudioService = _channelFactory.CreateChannel();
((IClientChannel)_projectStudioService).Open();
}
return _projectStudioService;
}
}
public void Dispose()
{
//((IClientChannel)_projectStudioService).Close();
//_channelFactory.Close();
}
}