Can I set an unlimited length for maxJsonLength in web.config?

Question

I am using the autocomplete feature of jQuery. When I try to retrieve the list of more then 17000 records (each won\'t have more than 10 char length), it\'s exceeding the le

Answer 1

I was having this problem in ASP.NET Web Forms. It was completely ignoring the web.config file settings so I did this:

        JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();

        serializer.MaxJsonLength = Int32.MaxValue; 

        return serializer.Serialize(response);

Of course overall this is terrible practice. If you are sending this much data in a web service call you should look at a different approach.