Setting the WCF MaxBufferSize, MaxReceiveMessageSize, and MaxArrayLength in Code instead of App.config

While the concept of using the app.config file for configuring the many WCF parameters is a nice idea. I sometime like setting the values in code. The most common one for me are MaxBufferSize, MaxReceiveMessageSize, and maxArrayLength because they are usually too small by default for most of my applications. Below I showthe app.config file with these parameters set and then how you can set the same parameters with code in C# and VB.NET.


app.config

VB.NET

' Increase binding max sizes so that the image can be retrieved
If TypeOf pltSvr.Endpoint.Binding Is ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding Then
  Dim binding As ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding = _
          CType(pltSvr.Endpoint.Binding, ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding)
  Dim max As Integer = 5000000 ' around 5M size allowed
  binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = max
  binding.MaxBufferSize = max
  binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = max
End If

C#

// Increase binding max sizes so that the image can be retrieved
if (pltSvr.Endpoint.Binding is System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding)
{
   System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding binding =
        (System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding)pltSvr.Endpoint.Binding;

   int max = 5000000;  // around 5M
   binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = max;
   binding.MaxBufferSize = max;
   binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxArrayLength = max;
}