Check connection

Is there a way to check if the connection to the BOS Service is lost before doing a save or before getting data from the BOS Service. I currently have a timer that runs every 10 seconds and then use the IdeaBlade.Core.HttpFns.PingServer() method and then stop processing on the client side if the connection is lost. This works great.

 

But I want to know is there a central place I can check for this, because sometimes the users will click on save and the connection is lost then I get the exception stating there is not endpoint.

 

Please if you can point me into a direction it would be most helpfull.

 

kind regards

I got this working by checking the saving and fetching events. So there I am able to stop all processing until I am able to ping the BOS Service using the IdeaBlade.Core.HttpFns.PingServer() method.

 

By getting this to work I came across the next problem and I would like to know if there is a work around for this problem.

 

Lets say I have a person entity, and before I save, I disable my Network Adapter, so on the Saving event I am not able to ping the server, which is the expected behaviour, and I give notification to the user, I then enable the network adapter again, then the ping goes through and the person entity is persisted correctly.

 

But taking the same scenario, Before I save the person entity, I kill the ServerConsole application, so now on the saving event, I am also not able to ping the BOS Server. I then start the ServerConsole again, and then I am able to ping the Server again, but this time the person entity is not saved. I get a "there is not endpoint listening error".

 

Here is the questions then.

1. What should I do on the client side when the ServerConsole crashes while the users are logged in. Because restarting the BOS ServerConsole application alone does not work.

2. Do you keep a reference to the current working ServerConsole, that is unique for the ServerConsole ? Otherwise how come it works when the network adapter is disabled and enabled again, but not when restarting the BOS Service ?

3. Is there anyway to notify the front end when the BOS Service crashes ?

 

I know I can catch the exceptions, but would like to do something before the exceptions occur.

 

Kind regards