I recently ran into a concurrency issue with WCF on a customer's system. I'll get into the details later (though not too much detail... NDA ;) ), but it involved some testing of the various combinations of InstanceContextMode and ConcurrencyMode settings for a WCF service. The table below is an attempt to clarify the results...
InstanceContextMode |
ConcurrencyMode |
Resulting Behaviour |
PerCall |
Single |
|
|
Multiple |
Same as with ConcurrencyMode.Single |
PerSession |
Single |
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Multiple |
|
|
Singlton |
Single |
|
|
Multiple |
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It's also worth noting that if you are using ServiceHost in an executable assembly, that the Main() method not be marked with the single threaded appartment attribute [System.STAThreadAttribute()]. This causes the application to be single threaded, and the additional threads will not be created regardless of the ConcurrencyMode.Multiple setting. Rather, it should be decorated with the multi-threaded appartment attribute [System.MTAThreadAttribute()].