Timeouts WCF Services

Question

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?

Answer 1

See

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/84551e45-19a2-4d0d-bcc0-516a4041943d/

for a full explanation.

Answer 2

In addition to what was on that post, there's also the Operation Timeout defined on the client end. See this:

http://final-proj.blogspot.com/2009/09/wcf-timeouts.html