WCF Service how to increase the timeout

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Might seem like a silly question  but everything in WCF seems a lot more complicated than in asmx  how can I increase the timeout of an svc service   Here is what I have so far    lt bindings gt         lt basicHttpBinding gt           lt binding name  IncreasedTimeout             openTimeout  12 00 00             receiveTimeout  12 00 00  closeTimeout  12 00 00            sendTimeout  12 00 00  gt           lt  binding gt         lt  basicHttpBinding gt   lt  bindings gt    And then my endpoint gets mapped like this    lt endpoint address       binding  basicHttpBinding  bindingConfiguration  IncreasedTimeout               contract  ServiceLibrary IDownloads  gt                lt identity gt                   lt dns value  localhost    gt                lt  identity gt             lt  endpoint gt    The exact error I am getting   The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00 00 59 9990000  Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding  The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout   In the WCF Test Client  there is a config icon that contains the run time configuration of my service   As you can see its not the same values as I ve set for it  What am I doing wrong    lt bindings gt               lt basicHttpBinding gt                   lt binding name  BasicHttpBinding IDownloads  closeTimeout  00 01 00                      openTimeout  00 01 00  receiveTimeout  00 10 00  sendTimeout  00 01 00                      allowCookies  false  bypassProxyOnLocal  false  hostNameComparisonMode  StrongWildcard                      maxBufferSize  65536  maxBufferPoolSize  524288  maxReceivedMessageSize  65536                      messageEncoding  Text  textEncoding  utf-8  transferMode  Buffered                      useDefaultWebProxy  true  gt                       lt readerQuotas maxDepth  32  maxStringContentLength  8192  maxArrayLength  16384                          maxBytesPerRead  4096  maxNameTableCharCount  16384    gt                       lt security mode  None  gt                           lt transport clientCredentialType  None  proxyCredentialType  None                              realm    gt                               lt extendedProtectionPolicy policyEnforcement  Never    gt                           lt  transport gt                           lt message clientCredentialType  UserName  algorithmSuite  Default    gt                       lt  security gt                   lt  binding gt               lt  basicHttpBinding gt           lt  bindings gt

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The timeout configuration needs to be set at the client level  so the configuration I was setting in the web config had no effect  the WCF test tool has its own configuration and there is where you need to set the timeout

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In your binding configuration  there are four timeout values you can tweak    lt bindings gt     lt basicHttpBinding gt       lt binding name  IncreasedTimeout               sendTimeout  00 25 00  gt       lt  binding gt     lt  basicHttpBinding gt    The most important is the sendTimeout  which says how long the client will wait for a response from your WCF service  You can specify hours minutes seconds in your settings - in my sample  I set the timeout to 25 minutes   The openTimeout as the name implies is the amount of time you re willing to wait when you open the connection to your WCF service  Similarly  the closeTimeout is the amount of time when you close the connection  dispose the client proxy  that you ll wait before an exception is thrown   The receiveTimeout is a bit like a mirror for the sendTimeout - while the send timeout is the amount of time you ll wait for a response from the server  the receiveTimeout is the amount of time you ll give you client to receive and process the response from the server   In case you re send back and forth  normal  messages  both can be pretty short - especially the receiveTimeout  since receiving a SOAP message  decrypting  checking and deserializing it should take almost no time  The story is different with streaming - in that case  you might need more time on the client to actually complete the  download  of the stream you get back from the server   There s also openTimeout  receiveTimeout  and closeTimeout  The MSDN docs on binding gives you more information on what these are for   To get a serious grip on all the intricasies of WCF  I would strongly recommend you purchase the  Learning WCF  book by Michele Leroux Bustamante   Learning WCF http   ecx images-amazon com images I 51GNuqUJq 2BL  BO2 204 203 200 PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click TopRight 35 -76 AA240 SH20 OU01  jpg  and you also spend some time watching her 15-part  WCF Top to Bottom  screencast series - highly recommended   For more advanced topics I recommend that you check out Juwal Lowy s Programming WCF Services book   Programming WCF http   ecx images-amazon com images I 41odWcLoGAL  BO2 204 203 200 PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click TopRight 35 -76 AA240 SH20 OU01  jpg

User · Answer

Got the same error recently but was able to fixed it by ensuring to close every wcf client call  eg   WCFServiceClient client   new WCFServiceClient       More codes here    Always close the client  client Close      or  using WCFServiceClient client   new WCFServiceClient              More codes here

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The best way is to change any setting you want in your code   Check out the below example   using WCFServiceClient client   new WCFServiceClient            client Endpoint Binding SendTimeout   new TimeSpan 0  1  30

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