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WCF 8192 issue

this was a simple issue which baffled few brains in my project. For the past few weeks i was seeing the mails about this. What was the exact problem?
Whenever a large xml stream is passed through WCF it generated the following error. Everything was fins at the ASP.net client side. Almost all the known properties of
Problem:
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 object used when creating the XML reader.

Cause:
By default WCF allows a string content of size 8192 (8K) to pass through without any problems. If the size increases above this set limit WCF treats the incoming message as bad message & hence throws an exception. This level was set considering the security aspect of distributed system.

If we have to pass more data we will have to manually override this default setting.

Now here the trick. Everyone looked at the client side but there is a server part also
When a WCF client is created  automatically all the properties required to run that service is added by default by visual studio.

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