WCF server-side timeout

Question

Is there a way to tell a WCF service to response to a request (with or without aborting it\'s processing) after a certain amount of time, even if it didn\'t finish yet, some

Answer 1

I have solved the same problem and created a blog post:

http://kanchengcao.blogspot.com/2012/06/adding-timeout-and-congestion.html

In short:

1. WCF server timeout config do not work
2. You could implement a timeout as others said
3. Such a timeout does not guarantee a timely response to the client, since the request could be queued for long before entering your code with timeout.

So I implemented method to drop requests if the server is overloaded and is expected to cause more timeouts.