What is maximum size of data can sent through webservice?

Question

Hi sir One interviewer asked me In Webservice what is the maximum size of data can be sent through webservice. Kindly give me the solution for this problem.

Sunny Sharma · Answer

Prabhu It depends on the configuration of the web service that you create. Here's the piece of code in web.config file responsible for size factor: executionTimeoutInSeconds=300/> You can also set the maxMessageLength to -1 to allow the maximum possible size. Please refer to these posts: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa528822.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/drnick/archive/2006/03/16/maximum-size-of-a-soap-message.aspx Happy learning :)