How to increase the timeout values for a WCF service in a dot net core 2.1 project

Question

I am posting this because I was unable to find any place on Stack Overflow that addresses this issue for a .Net-Core project utilizing WCF by adding the service reference through Connected Services.

My issue was that I was facing client side timeouts because of long running operation requests.

So, how does one increase the timeout values for the wcf client objects since .Net-Core no longer uses the web config to store the configuration values for the WCF service references? (Please see my provided answer)

Answer 1

Under Connected Services in Solution Explorer, after adding a WCF service, a few files are generated for that service. You should see a folder with the name you gave the WCF service reference and under that a Getting Started, ConnectedService.json and a Reference.cs file.

To increase any of the client service object's timeout values, open Reference.cs and locate method: GetBindingForEndpoint

Inside this method you should see something like this:

if ((endpointConfiguration == EndpointConfiguration.BasicHttpBinding_IYourService))
            {
                System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding result = new System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding();
                result.MaxBufferSize = int.MaxValue;
                result.ReaderQuotas = System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas.Max;
                result.MaxReceivedMessageSize = int.MaxValue;
                result.AllowCookies = true;
                //Here's where you can set the timeout values
                result.SendTimeout = new System.TimeSpan(0, 5, 0);
                result.ReceiveTimeout = new System.TimeSpan(0, 5, 0);

                return result;
            }

Just use result. and the timeout you want to increase like SendTimeout, ReceiveTimeout, etc. and set it to a new TimeSpan with the desired timeout value.

I hope this proves to be a useful post to someone.