Consuming services that consume other services.

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Published on 2009-05-27T20:57:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 22:42 UTC
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What is the best way to confirm that these consumed services are actually up and running before I actually try to invoke its operation contracts? I want to do this so that I can gracefully display some message to the customer to give him/her a more pleasant user experience. Thanks.

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