title: Is there an example of checking on if a WCF Service is online?
body: <p>I will have a client application using a proxy to a WCF Service.  This client will be a windows form application doing basicHttpBinding to N number of endpoints at an address.</p>
  
  <p>The problem I want to resolve is that when any windows form application going across the internet to get my web server that must have my web server online will need to know that this particular WCF Service is online.  I need an example of how this client on a background thread will be able to do a polling of just "WCF Service.., Are You There?"  This way our client application can notify clients before they invest a lot of time in building up work client-side to only be frustrated with the WCF Service being offline.</p>
  
  <p>Again I am looking for a simple way to check for WCF Service "Are You There?"</p>