title: How to keep WCF Service Alive?
body: <p>I have a situation where I have two programs (one exe and one dll loaded into the process space of another third-party exe) communicating requests with each other using a local machine wcf service (using net named pipe binding).  There's a third host exe that starts hosting the service.  It all works great (so far anyways... I'm still learning), but I got to thinking about what would happen if the channel faults or the service times out.  What would be the best practice for checking and handling faults as well as keep the channel alive?</p>
  
  <p>In my case it will be up to the user to keep the applications open or close them and we do have those users who tend to keep them open overnight, over the weekend, etc... It seems to me this could open the possibility of a fault or loss of service and I don't have a clue how to recover.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>