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Getting Around the 4MB Limit in ASP.NET

Getting Around the 4MB Limit in ASP.NET

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As many developers have found when uploading files from an FTP server or shared drive, by default, ASP.NET programs cannot upload a dataset from a file that exceeds 4MB.

You can fix this by overriding the default value of 4MB in the web.config file.

<httpRuntime executionTimeout="420"  maxRequestLength="40960" />

Please note that the value is in KB.

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