WCF Service and Threading

Question

I have created a simple WCF (.NET 3.5) service which defines 10 contracts which are basically calculations on the supplied data. At the moment I expect quite few clients to

Answer 1

I'm not familiar with WCF, but can the process be async? If you are expecting a huge amount of data and intensive calculations, one option could be to send an id, calculate the values in a separate thread and then provide a method to return the result using the initial id.

Something like:

 int id = Service.CalculateX(...);
 ...
 var y = Service.GetResultX(id);