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There's a limit on the data sent and recieved in WCF, resulting in errors like this when the webservice sends back larger messages:

"The maximum message size quota for incoming messages (65536) has been exceeded. To increase the quota, use the MaxReceivedMessageSize property on the appropriate binding element."

The fix for this is to create a new binding with much larger limits:

System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding binding = new System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding();
binding.MaxBufferSize = 1024 * 1024 * 2; //bit bigger than default
binding.MaxReceivedMessageSize = 1024 * 1024 * 2;
binding.ReaderQuotas.MaxStringContentLength = 1024 * 1024 * 2;
ServiceReference1.MyServicesSoapClient client = new ServiceReference1.MyServicesSoapClient(binding, new System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress("http://myservice/service.asmx"));

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