Question

I have a webapi

public ISearchProviderCommandResult ExecuteCommand(ISearchProviderCommand searchCommand)
{
  //serialize the object before sending it in
  JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
  string jsonInput = serializer.Serialize(searchCommand);

  HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient() { BaseAddress = new Uri(ServiceUrl), MaxResponseContentBufferSize = 256000 };

  StringContent content = new StringContent(jsonInput, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

  HttpResponseMessage output = httpClient.PostAsync(ServiceUrl, content).Result;

  //deserialize the output of the webapi call
  SearchProviderCommandResult searchResult = serializer.Deserialize<SearchProviderCommandResult>(output.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);

  return searchResult;
}

on my local machine whether I set the MaxResponseContentBufferSize or not, it seems to retrieve data the way I want it. However on our build environment, If I dont set the MaxResponseContentBufferSize , I get this error:
Cannot write more bytes to the buffer than the configured maximum buffer size: 65536.

After looking on google, I decided to set the MaxResponseContentBufferSize to an arbitrary 256000 value. Even though this works on my local machine, on the build box I get this error:
Method not found: ‘Void System.Net.Http.HttpClient.set_MaxResponseContentBufferSize(Int64)

I have no idea what to do now.

Answer 1

Look at this thread on forums.asp.net. It seems there is some issue with .net 4.5 beta version on your build environment. There is surely a mismatch of dlls on your local and your build environment