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WCF Self Hosted Duplex Service for Chubby Client

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[Concrete/Interesting] I received an email from a friend of mine. He was trying to build a Chubby Client, following some of the ideas I put down in my previous article. What was needed in this case was a Duplex Service that send data back from a thread outside of the main thread. My friend sent me his code and declared it couldn’t be done. That sounded like a ‘dare’ to me, so I thought I’d have a go. In this article I will take you through some of the major steps and discuss the overall architecture and solution. If you want the code, I've published this to Google Code so feel free to download and take a look: http://deviceservices.googlecode.com The Goal The main goal was to develop a device service that can be called from a Silverlight in or out of browser client. The device service would have initialization and action methods similar to those supported by an Windows OPOS device such as a scanner, printer, cash draw, customer display or MSR. For more details about Microsoft OPOS