Client (TCP and Named Pipe) Connection Pooling

Using the TCP and Named Pipe bindings give you a very clean mapping between IDuplexSessionChannel and the underlying network resource (socket or pipe). Namely, you can effectively treat a channel as 1-1 to a socket (I will use socket as shorthand for the generic “network resource” for the remainder of this post  ). That being said, the lifetime of the underlying socket is not necessarily 1-1 with