How to I find out when my WCF server has exited (and closed it TCP connection)

I am using the nettcpbinding binding (with reliably messaging at present).

When the server does a serviceHost.Close(), the TCP connection should be cleanly closed 开发者_C百科and therefore the client side should be told. How do I hook this event with WCF? (Note this is not the same as the TCP connection being closed by a network problem, when reliably messaging may be able to recreate the connection)

If the server calls serviceHost.Abort() , then the client will never be able to send it another message, so I would expect some event to be raised after all the retry timeouts.

(The IChannel.Faulted and IChannel.Closing events do not get fired on the client side)

It seems that WCF does not expose a lot of what TCP can do, as it thinks that HTTP is the centre of the world.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but an option wpuld be to configure your service as a duplex service and send a termination notification to clients before closing the service host.