The max message size quota for incoming messages (65536) …To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property

Question

I got this crazy problem I\'m trying to deal with. I know that when we\'re getting huge amount of data we must increase the quota on client .config file, but what am I suppo

Answer 1

You can set the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the service via the service's config file.

Setting the client's MaxReceivedMessageSize only affects messages received by the client; it has no effect on messages received by the service. Correspondingly, to allow the service to receive large messages, you need to set the service's config file.

Sample Service Config

<system.serviceModel>
  <bindings>
    <wsHttpBinding>
      <binding name="MyBinding" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" />
    </wsHttpBinding>
  </bindings>
  <services>
    <service name="MyService">
      <endpoint address="http://myservice" binding="wsHttpBinding"
                bindingConfiguration="MyBinding" contract="IMyServiceContract" />
    </service>
  </services>
</system.serviceModel>

The above is a very stripped down config file, but shows the relevant parts. The important part is that you define the binding and give it a name, and set any values explicitly that are different from the defaults, and use that name in the bindingConfiguration attribute on the endpoint element.

Answer 2

This issue can be resolved by adding the below additional binding node to the binding section of config file.

<basicHttpBinding>
  <binding maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
    <readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" 
       maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
  </binding>
</basicHttpBinding>

Answer 3

My problem was with the wcf test client. For some reason, it wouldn't generate a client config with the increased maxReceivedMessageSize. My fix was to right click "Config file" -> "Edit with SvcConfigEditor" -> bindings -> maxReceivedMessageSize.