WCF Timeout issue?

Question

I have a somewhat long-taking WCF-based process. WCF service runs in Azure if its of any help. The issue I believe has to do with timeouts:

1) Winforms client has

Answer 1

The Windows Azure load balancer terminates idle connections after 60 seconds.

Answer 2

Updated answer:

Azure load balancer terminates idle connections after 4 minutes. If you're interested in increasing/decreasing timeout value, check this article:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-configurable-idle-timeout-for-azure-load-balancer/

Answer 3

Check out the latest post from Azure team... http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/08/14/new-configurable-idle-timeout-for-azure-load-balancer/