PollingDuplexBindingElement Class

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Represents the binding element that enables duplex communication between a Silverlight 5 client and a service.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.ServiceModel.Channels.BindingElement
    System.ServiceModel.Channels.PollingDuplexBindingElement

Namespace:  System.ServiceModel.Channels
Assembly:  System.ServiceModel.PollingDuplex (in System.ServiceModel.PollingDuplex.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Class PollingDuplexBindingElement _
    Inherits BindingElement

public class PollingDuplexBindingElement : BindingElement

The PollingDuplexBindingElement type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	PollingDuplexBindingElement()	Initializes a new instance of the PollingDuplexBindingElement class.
	PollingDuplexBindingElement(PollingDuplexBindingElement)	Initializes a new instance of the PollingDuplexBindingElement class from an existing one.
	PollingDuplexBindingElement(PollingDuplexMode)	Initializes a new instance of the PollingDuplexBindingElement class with a specified polling duplex mode.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	ClientPollTimeout	The interval of time that a client polling request has to complete before timing out.
	DuplexMode	Gets or sets a value that specifies how the server behaves in response to client polling when the communication is configured for duplex polling.
	InactivityTimeout	Gets or sets the maximum interval of time that can pass without activity on a channel before the client channel enters a faulted state.
	MaxPendingMessagesPerSession	Gets or sets the maximum number of pending messages per session.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	BuildChannelFactory<TChannel>	Creates a channel factory that can be used to create a channel. (Overrides BindingElement.BuildChannelFactory<TChannel>(BindingContext).)
	CanBuildChannelFactory<TChannel>	Determines whether a channel factory of the specified type can be built. (Overrides BindingElement.CanBuildChannelFactory<TChannel>(BindingContext).)
	Clone	Creates a copy of the current binding element. (Overrides BindingElement.Clone().)
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetProperty<T>	Gets a property from the specified BindingContext. (Overrides BindingElement.GetProperty<T>(BindingContext).)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

In duplex communication, either party can initiate a message exchange. As with non-duplex communication, the client can send a request to the service and receive an optional reply. But with duplex communication, the service itself can initiate communications by sending a message to the client at any time. This is useful in applications where data must be pushed to the client when it is updated on the server.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) supports several types of duplex bindings. The PollingDuplexBindingElement is an element of the PollingDuplexHttpBinding that is specifically intended to establish communications with clients like Silverlight 5, where traditional duplex transport protocols like TCP are not available and where the client cannot accept new incoming connections. The PollingDuplexHttpBinding is the only duplex binding available to use with Silverlight 5 clients.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

System.ServiceModel.Channels Namespace