What type of serialization uses Wcf behind the scenes?

Question

I know there\'s 3 type s of serialization in .net :

Soap , Xml , Binary.

Wcf instructed the DataContract attribute which also serialize ... bu

Answer 1

It is the binding defined for the given endpoint which specifies the serialization mechanism. For example:

• basicHttpBinding and wsHttpBinding use SOAP
• netTcpBinding uses binary serialization
• webHttpBinding could use XML, Json, ...

You can read more about the different built-in bindings and their properties on this article. Thanks to the extensibility of WCF you could of course write your own custom bindings.