Silverlight Binary Serialization and Compression with WCF Services

Posted by: EggHeadCafe.com New Articles, on 03 Sep 2010 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

WCF is a great tool, and because of the streamlined nature of Silverlight, it is virtually essential for various types of data access. However, the default behavior of WCF is to serialize your types via the DataContractSerializer. If you have significant amounts of data going to the server (or, more likely) coming back from the server, that results in what can be a very large glop of textual XML going back and forth over the wire.  read more

By Peter Bromberg

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