.net 4 ws-discovery endpoints

Question

Hi,

I am using ws-discovery in .NET 4.0 and it is working well. One question I have is how to deal with services that are not working. For example, say I have IService on server A and server B. Let's say this service on server A is broken (mimic this by stopping Application Pool). Your client will still find 2 services, so when you attempt to use the service you cannot guarantee that it is the working one.

So my question is, do you deal with this by looping through the endpoints and if the first one fails try the next one. Or is there a way to retrieve only services that are "up" at the time of the search? Or am I missing the point somewhere - quite possibly :-)

Thanks

Answer 1

This article seems to cover what you are talking about by determining the endpoint address at runtime.

http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/archive/2009/02/13/using-ws-discovery-in-wcf-4-0.aspx