How to set the MaxReceivedMessageSize programmatically when using a WCF Client?

Question

I want to set the MaxReceivedMessageSize property to some higher limit (Due to (400) Bad Request error) in my client programmatically. This is the code I am using...

WCFServiceTestClient wcfClient = 
    new WCFServiceTestClient(new wsHttpBinding(), strServiceURL);

My service url is dynamic and hence cannot use the web.config.

//The following code doesn't seem to take effect
((WSHttpBinding)wcfClient.ChannelFactory.Endpoint.Binding)
        .MaxReceivedMessageSize = 2147483647;

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Have you tried re-ordering the calls so that you set the MaxReceivedMessageSize before instantiating the client? eg,

var binding = new wsHttpBinding();
binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = Int32.MaxValue; 
var wcfClient = new WCFServiceTestClient(binding, strServiceURL); 

This may or may not help your 400 error, though.

Answer 2

I had similar problems in my wcf-service and I solved it with:

CustomBinding binding = (CustomBinding)PDAServiceContractClient.CreateDefaultBinding();
            HttpTransportBindingElement httpBindingElement = new HttpTransportBindingElement();
            httpBindingElement.MaxBufferSize = Int32.MaxValue;
            httpBindingElement.MaxReceivedMessageSize = Int32.MaxValue;
            binding.Elements.Add(httpBindingElement);

            string address = PDAServiceContractClient.EndpointAddress.Uri.ToString();
            m_proxy = new PDAServiceContractClient(binding, new EndpointAddress(address));