Here we are with a small problem encountered: the maximum size of the Azure Queue has been increased from 8KB to 64KB from version 18.8.2011. Cool! A little more space available is great, especially on messages with lots of metadata to be sent.
But if like me you try to create a message with a size of 10KB using the SDK 1.5 (October 2011), you will receive an error.
Now to figure out exactly where the problem was I used JustDecompile (since the good old Reflector is no longer free, I tried the beta of JustDecompile from Telerik) and I decompiled the CloudQueueMessage by Microsoft.WindowsAzure.StorageClient.dll and … surprise! In the constructor there’s a nice hard-coded limit to 8192 bytes in the MaxMessageSize property:
CloudQueueMessage.MaxMessageSize = (long) 8192;
How to solve the problem? By downloading the 1.6 SDK Azure where the client libraries have been updated with the new limits and the same dll decompiled now has:
CloudQueueMessage.MaxMessageSize = (long) 65536;
