How do you debug an WCF issue?

Question

I'm running into a weird issue with my WCF Service using WS binding. When I configure it with no sessions (security/reliable) it works just fine, but not so with sessions. For example when I configure with security (message security, windows credentials), I get a timeout after 10th or 11th call. My service calls another WCF Service but, but both services are configured with same binding parameters.

How would you debug an issue like this? What tools would you use other than turning on tracing and using SvcTraceViewer?

Answer 1

The best way to debug such scenario would be to activate tracing in the WCF service/client. The tracer creates log files which you can use the build-in trace viewer to read. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733025.aspx

Answer 2

Sounds like you may be hitting a throttle...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480020/wcf-service-throttling

http://kennyw.com/indigo/150