///<summary>This method will get invoked by clients that are having trouble connecting to the middle tier.
///It does not query the database on purpose because each instance of Open Dental can have many threads asking this question.
///Also, some payloads have an impressive amount of data that had to be serialized and this method will have a small signature,
///thereby reducing network traffic during the timeframe that Clients are attempting to reconnect to the Middle Tier server.</summary>
public static bool IsMiddleTierAvailable()
{
//Clients will be invoking this method so there needs to be a remoting role check here even though no db call.
if (RemotingClient.RemotingRole == RemotingRole.ClientWeb)
{
return(Meth.GetIsMiddleTierAvailable(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod()));
}
return(RemotingClient.RemotingRole == RemotingRole.ServerWeb);
}
