Find the size of a data which i am sending to webservice

Question

Is there any way to find the size of a data which i am sending to webservice from the client in Csharp dotnet

Answer 1

Here's a way to find the size of your data when it's serialized to XML, which is what happens when you call a standard SOAP webservice:

var data = GetMyData();
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(data.GetType())
using(var stream = new MemoryStream()) 
{
    serializer.Serialize(stream, data);
    var sizeOfData = stream.Length;
}