WCF Thread Sleep

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I have a windows service that starts a host for a WCF service. I have an interface defining the ServiceContract and OperationContracts. There is a class that implements this interface. The ServiceBehavior attribute is PerSession. As I understand, each session get its own class instance on the WCF service.

[ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = ServiceModel.InstanceContextMode.PerSession)]
public class WCFServiceImplementation : WCFServiceInterface
{

}

Now some where in my WCFServiceImplementation I am calling Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000) (there are some race conditions). My question - can the service still be called by other clients while the thread is in sleep? I am not very familiar with threading, does each class instance run on its own separate thread with WCF services.

@jeroenh I would have liked to avoid, but I need to communicate with an external application which is not controlled by my code. — swiftgp, Sep 28 '12 at 16:56
Can you add some detail about your communication with your 3rd party app, perhaps we can provide a better solution. — Scott Chamberlain, Oct 05 '12 at 22:22

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '12 at 16:51

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Yes, the service can still be called by other clients because they will be on other sessions.

answered Sep 28 '12 at 16:51

Mike Perrenoud

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