How to use socket based client with WCF (net.tcp) service?

Question

I have developed a WCF service that uses the net.tcp adapter and listens to a specific port. I want to connect to that service using a normal .net client that uses sockets t

Answer 1

The Net.TCP binding uses a custom wire-level framing format that is not really documented, though Nicholas Allen started a series of blog posts on the topic recently. The series start here: http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2009/01/19/message-framing-part-1.aspx

To be honest, Net.TCP is really, currently, more useful for WCF to WCF communication. if you want to interop with a custom TCP format that you need to handle, you're much better off either using raw sockets or creating your own custom WCF transport channel (which might not be trivial, btw)