Streaming an undetermined number of objects through WCF

Question

I have a WCF service that needs to read large (10 to 20 million) numbers of objects from the database.

What I\'d like to do, is have the client open up a stream and ha

Answer 1

The problem is that WCF does not provide response stream to operation. The stream returned from operation is just a "content" of some message. I tryed to trick WCF with some threading scenarios where I returned MemoryStream and tryed to fill it from other thread but as expected it didn't work.

Mentioned HttpHandler is the only way to go.