Async named pipe server

I was looking at some threaded named pipe server code compared to async implementations such as http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/492231/Csharp-Async-Named-Pipes and
I am wondering how this works in a busy env, only one client can be processed concurrently as another instance is only spun up once the single running instance finishes.
Does anyone know of any async implementations that are complete that I might study?
Thanks.

This type of async does use a threadpool, but you don't manage the callbacks directly since it's an IO type and not a worker type.  I'd base the decision on what I was more comfortable doing.  
What do you mean by unable to enumerate the actual pipe name?  I haven't explicitly tried with WCF, but even if it doesn't directly expose it, a named pipe is going to boil down to a file handle that is open in the process.  The name of the pipe
can be extracted from the handle with
GetFileInformationByHandleEx.  System.Reflection would let you see private members down to the point of where that pointer is if nothing else.
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