Category Archives: WCF

Passing Large Messages in WCF: maxItemsInObjectGraph, maxReceivedMessageSize, and maxBufferSize

in WCF it is known that you can pass messages up to multi GBs between a client and a service. however, there are certain configurations that you need to tweak.

in one of my projects i had a SQL table with around 100,000 records. i had a service which simply reads all the records and pass them to a client.
i decided to use the netTcpBinding for binary encoding which will enhance performance..of course i had .NET-based apps on both ends. Continue reading

WCF Queued Messaging

One common requirement for all MEPs is message durability; that is the ability to preserve the message under all conditions and make sure that a message will arrive where it is supposed to.

Microsoft Message Queuing service is a proven method to provide a queue for messages to reside inside until recipients are ready to pick them up. WCF offers implicit MSMQ integration through the NetMsmqBinding which is the topic of this article…

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