wcf-binding

How do the timeouts work in WCF? I know for example that you can configure sendTimeout and receiveTimeout for a clients binding. But how do they work? MSDN describes sendTimeout as: A TimeSpan value that specifies the interval of time provided for a send operation to complete. This value should be greater than or equal to Zero. The default is 00:01:00. What are send operations/receive operations? Brian Client side: SendTimeout is used to initialize the OperationTimeout, which governs the whole interaction for sending a message (including receiving a reply message in a request-reply case). This

I'm writing a small WCF/WPF app to resize images but WCF is giving me grief when I try to send an image of size 28K to my service from the client. The service works fine when I send it smaller images. I immediately assumed that this was a configuration issue and I've trawled the web looking at posts regarding the MaxArrayLength property in my binding configuration. Ive upped the limits on these settings on both the client and server to the maximum 2147483647 but still I get the following error: The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while

In WCF there are several different types of HTTP based bindings: BasicHttpBinding WsHttpBinding WebHttpBinding What are the differences among these 3? In particular what are the differences in terms of features / performance and compatability? You're comparing apples to oranges here: webHttpBinding is the REST-style binding, where you basically just hit a URL and get back a truckload of XML or JSON from the web service basicHttpBinding and wsHttpBinding are two SOAP-based bindings which is quite different from REST. SOAP has the advantage of having WSDL and XSD to describe the service, its

I'm trying to connect an application (the client) to an exposed WCF service, but not through the application configuration file, but in code. How should I go about doing this? Enrico Campidoglio You'll have to use the ChannelFactory class. Here's an example: var myBinding = new BasicHttpBinding(); var myEndpoint = new EndpointAddress("http://localhost/myservice"); using (var myChannelFactory = new ChannelFactory<IMyService>(myBinding, myEndpoint)) { IMyService client = null; try { client = myChannelFactory.CreateChannel(); client.MyServiceOperation(); ((ICommunicationObject)client).Close();