WCF Service @ SharePoint 2010 TimeOut

Question

I have been developing on SP 2010 for a while now. Mostly I have been working with the Client Object Model.

Though I am at a point where I need to read out the UserProfiles from inside SharePoint.

I see no other way to do this than to make a custom WCFService and deploy it to SharePoint.

So that is what I did. I made an "Empty SharePoint Project" and added the mapped "ISAPI" folder.

The code from the WCF Service:

public string GetUserByName(string _name)
    {
        string server = "http://esddev72";
        UserProfileManager profileManager;
        string s = "";
        string u = "";
        SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate
        {
             using (SPSite site = new SPSite(server))
             {
                 SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
                 profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context, true);
                 s += "AccountNames: ";
                 u += "firstNames: ";
                 foreach (UserProfile profile in profileManager)
                 {
                     if (profile["AccountName"] != null)
                     {
                         s += profile["AccountName"] + " - ";
                     }
                     if (profile["FirstName"] != null)
                     {
                     }
                 }

             }
        });
        return s;
    }

This service gives a TimeOut error... When I delete the following line the TimeOut is fixed

if (profile["FirstName"] != null)
                     {
                     }

So I can only read out the AccountName... Does anyone know a solution to this?

I've read things about putting the timeout times higher, but it didn't work for me... Or maybe I did someting wrong, so if you could explain that part as well ;)

Thanks !

Answer 1

Well at this moment i solved it by using .asmx webservices... But still no idea how to solve the WCF TimeOut tho...

Answer 2

Try PropertyConstants.

http://www.sharemuch.com/2010/03/29/creating-new-sharepoint-2010-user-profiles-programatically/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.server.userprofiles.userprofilemanager.aspx

Answer 3

Did you deploy the service in the recommended SharePoint way? i.e. write the code and deploy a .svc file that references that class but uses the out of the box SharePoint factory i.e:

<%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="YOURCLASS, YOURASSEMBLY, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=TOKEN" Factory="System.ServiceModel.Activation.WebScriptServiceHostFactory" %>

Yould also decorate your service class wit the following attributes

[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Required)]
[ServiceBehavior(Namespace = "http://servicenamespace/", IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults=true)] // IncludeExceptionDetailInFaults not required of course
[BasicHttpBindingServiceMetadataExchangeEndpointAttribute]

By doing this the service will be running as if it were in SharePoint and you can even use SPCOntext.Current. Security is also automatically done because it will be run by SharePoint.

Answer 4

<basicHttpBinding>

<binding name="BasicHttpBinding_myWCF" receiveTimeout="00:20:00" openTimeout="00:20:00" closeTimeout="00:20:00"

sendTimeout="00:20:00" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">

<security mode="None" />

</binding>

and in the web.config of the WCF service:

<bindings>

<basicHttpBinding>

<binding name="Binding1" receiveTimeout="00:20:00" sendTimeout="00:20:00" openTimeout="00:20:00" closeTimeout="00:20:00"

maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"/>

</basicHttpBinding>

</bindings>

the web service method still times out after 1 minute and raises an exception in the client.

Also the

<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" />