Trent Jones

I’ve been doing a bit of WCF lately and picked up on a few things that will be helpful for me to remember.  To speed large transfers switch the messageEncoding on the binding to be MTOM, otherwise your data will get base64 encoded inside the XML.

1. Streaming requires a MessageContract and not a DataContract
2. Streaming doesn’t work on wsHTTPbinding.
3. A MessageContract can only have one Member in the body (stream).

Another good piece:
http://www.aspfree.com/c/a/Windows-Scripting/WCF-and-Hosting/3/

When you install visual studio 2008 along side Visual Source Safe 2005 you will need this update to enable the Open from Source Safe option from within visual studio.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181038(VS.80).aspx