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[Title] Context bindings as custom context [Category] Essentials [Last Updated] 10/30/2008 [Description] 
With .NET 3.5, WCF provides three context bindings (BasicHttpContextBinding, NetTcpContextBinding, WSHttpContextBinding). These support a context protocol for passing custom parameters from the client to the service in the form of a dictionary of strings keys and values. This is a general technique for passing out-of-band parameters to the call, in effect giving the service a custom context, not unlike the other WCF contexts, such as transaction or security. Using the context binding on both sides requires intricate interaction with the operation context and the proxy. To automate, IDesign provides the ContextManager helper class which streamlines reading and writing into the context binding and ContextClientBase, which derives ClientBas
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