Unable to set maxReceivedMessageSize through web.config

Question

I have now investigated the 400 - BadRequest code for the last two hours. A lot of sugestions goes towards ensuring the bindingConfiguration attribute is set correctly, and

Answer 1

All right, this one really caused me a hard time resolving, which I will spare others for. The challenge was in the fact, that I used the <%@ ServiceHost Factory="System.ServiceModel.Activation.WebServiceHostFactory" Service="fullyQualifiedClassName" %>, which is a nice and easy factory implementation approach.

However, this approach has it drawbacks; since no configuration is needed in the web.config file, the WebServiceHostFactory class by design does not ever read from the web.config file. I know; I could inherit from this class, and make the appropriate changes so it may indeed read from the config file, but this seemed a little out of scope.

My solution was to go back to the more traditional way of implementing the WCF; <%@ ServiceHost Service="fullyQualifiedClassName" CodeBehind="~/App_Code/Catalogue.cs" %>, and then use my already configured values in the web.config file.

Here is my modified web.config file (with respect to Maddox headache):

Another benefit of this change is, that you can now reference your WCF-rest service directly from .NET; this cannot be done using the Factory model and my implementation of XmlElement through out the solution.

I hope this can help others with similar issues ...