“Depends” is my favorite answer when teaching .NET-related courses, because behind this simple word lies the implementation of the CLR and BCL, which sometimes lead us to answers we didn’t expect. For example, take the question in the topic: according to MSDN , the default value of System.Net.ServicePointManager.DefaultConnectionLimit is 2. So I wrote some code that tries to open a lot of connections from a console application to a WCF service, and to my amaze, I was able to send dozens of requests...