I have a simple self hosted WCF Console windows app, and I can connect fine from my client. I have a problem though sending large XML strings through to the server. I get the following error:
"System.Xml.XmlException: The maximum string content length quota (8192) has been exceeded while reading XML data. This quota may be increased by changing the MaxStringContentLength property on the XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas..."
I can set the MaxStringContentLength in the client by changing its app.config file (generated by svcutil.exe).
But on the server side I have nowhere I can change this. I have read about a web.config file and am not sure if a WCF console app can have one and if so how I can read it in and use it? My self hosting code is below:
static void RunWCFService()
{
// Step 1 of the address configuration procedure: Create a URI to serve as the base address.
Uri baseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:8000/MyService/WcfService");
// Step 2 of the hosting procedure: Create ServiceHost
ServiceHost selfHost = new ServiceHost(typeof(MyServiceWcf), baseAddress);
try
{
// Step 3 of the hosting procedure: Add a service endpoint.
selfHost.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IMyService), new WSHttpBinding(), "MyService");
// Step 4 of the hosting procedure: Enable metadata exchange.
ServiceMetadataBehavior smb = new ServiceMetadataBehavior();
smb.HttpGetEnabled = true;
selfHost.Description.Behaviors.Add(smb);
// Step 5 of the hosting procedure: Start (and then stop) the service.
selfHost.Open();
Console.WriteLine("Press <ENTER> to terminate service.");
Console.ReadLine();
// Close the ServiceHostBase to shutdown the service.
selfHost.Close();
}
catch (CommunicationException ce)
{
Console.WriteLine("An exception occurred: {0}", ce.Message);
selfHost.Abort();
}
}