How to set a timeout on a SOAP call in MS .Net 4.5 using C#

Question

I need to account for extremely slow responses from a SOAP server. I have added the service in C# language using Visual Studio 2012 and I really would like to be able to easily set a timeout value on the service object and handle a suitably named exception when a response is not received within that time frame.

How can I implement this?

Answer 1

It's in the documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.web.services2.soapwebrequest.timeout.aspx .

In short, use the SoapWebRequest's Timeout property.