WCF - There was an error reading from the pipe: The pipe has been ended.

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Hi All,

I am getting following exception when I am exposing my WCF service with NetNamedPipeBinding.

Project Environment:
1. WCF service hosted in IIS 7.5 (Windows 7 Machine)
2. Simple Coonsole Application is the client.
3. WCF library is hosted in IIS using thte .svc file<.
4. I have a simple service with one method which returns a simple string in the WCF service.

Approaches I have tried:
1. Starting the service Net named Pipe Listener.
2. Security mode set to None.
3. Increased the timeouts in the server and client, both the configs.

Service Config:

<system.serviceModel>   
<bindings>
      <netNamedPipeBinding>
        <binding name="Binding1"
                 closeTimeout="00:10:00"
                 openTimeout="00:10:00"
                 receiveTimeout="00:10:00"
                 sendTimeout="00:10:00"
                 transactionFlow="false"
                 transferMode="Buffered"
                 transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"
                 hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                 maxBufferPoolSize="524288"
                 maxBufferSize="65536"
                 maxConnections="10"
                 maxReceivedMessageSize="65536">
          <security mode="None">
          </security>
        </binding>
      </netNamedPipeBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client />
    <services>
      <service name="WCFDemo.DemoService">
        <endpoint address="http://localhost:58765/DemoService" binding="wsHttpBinding"
          name="DemoWsHtppEP" contract="WCFDemo.IDemoService">
          <identity>
            <dns value="localhost" />
          </identity>
        </endpoint>
        <endpoint address="http://localhost:58765/DemoService/mex" binding="mexHttpBinding"
          name="DemoMexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
        <endpoint address="net.tcp://localhost/DemoService" binding="netTcpBinding"
          bindingConfiguration="" name="DemoNetTcpEP" contract="WCFDemo.IDemoService" />
        <endpoint address="net.pipe://localhost/DemoService" binding="netNamedPipeBinding"
          bindingConfiguration="Binding1" name="DemoNetNamedPipeEP"/>
        <host>
          <baseAddresses>
            <add baseAddress="http://localhost:58765" />
          </baseAddresses>
        </host>
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior>
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/>
          <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, 
          set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment 
          to avoid disclosing exception information -->
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="False" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>

Client Config:

<system.serviceModel>
        <bindings>
            <basicHttpBinding>
               <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IDemoService" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                    openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                    allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                    maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
                    messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
                    useDefaultWebProxy="true">
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                    <security mode="None">
                        <transport realm="" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </basicHttpBinding>
            <netNamedPipeBinding>
                <binding name="Binding1" closeTimeout="00:10:00" openTimeout="00:10:00"
                    receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00" transactionFlow="false"
                    transferMode="Buffered" transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"
                    hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferPoolSize="524288"
                    maxBufferSize="65536" maxConnections="10" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536">
                    <security mode="None">
                        <transport protectionLevel="EncryptAndSign" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
                <binding name="NetNamedPipeBinding_IDemoService" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                    openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                    transactionFlow="false" transferMode="Buffered" transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"
                    hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferPoolSize="524288"
                    maxBufferSize="65536" maxConnections="10" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536">
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                    <security mode="Transport">
                        <transport protectionLevel="EncryptAndSign" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </netNamedPipeBinding>
            <netTcpBinding>
                <binding name="NetTcpBinding_IDemoService" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                    openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                    transactionFlow="false" transferMode="Buffered" transactionProtocol="OleTransactions"
                    hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" listenBacklog="10"
                    maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxBufferSize="65536" maxConnections="10"
                    maxReceivedMessageSize="65536">
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                    <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00"
                        enabled="false" />
                    <security mode="Transport">
                        <transport clientCredentialType="Windows" protectionLevel="EncryptAndSign" />
                        <message clientCredentialType="Windows" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </netTcpBinding>
        </bindings>
        <client>
            <endpoint address="net.pipe://gcotdvm3722126.nam.nsroot.net/WCFDemo/DemoServiceHost.svc"
                binding="netNamedPipeBinding" bindingConfiguration="Binding1"
                contract="WCFDemoService.IDemoService" name="DemoNetNamedPipeEP" />
            <endpoint address="http://gcotdvm3722126.nam.nsroot.net/WCFDemo/DemoServiceHost.svc"
                binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IDemoService"
                contract="WCFDemoService.IDemoService" name="BasicHttpBinding_IDemoService" />
            <endpoint address="net.tcp://gcotdvm3722126.nam.nsroot.net/WCFDemo/DemoServiceHost.svc"
                binding="netTcpBinding" bindingConfiguration="NetTcpBinding_IDemoService"
                contract="WCFDemoService.IDemoService" name="DemoNetTcpEP" />
            <endpoint address="net.pipe://gcotdvm3722126.nam.nsroot.net/WCFDemo/DemoServiceHost.svc"
                binding="netNamedPipeBinding" bindingConfiguration="NetNamedPipeBinding_IDemoService"
                contract="WCFDemoService.IDemoService" name="NetNamedPipeBinding_IDemoService">
                <identity>
                    <servicePrincipalName value="host/GCOTDVM3722126.nam.nsroot.net" />
                </identity>
            </endpoint>
        </client>