Transferring large payloads of data (Serialized Objects) using wsHttp in WCF with message security

Question

I have a case where I need to transfer large amounts of serialized object graphs (via NetDataContractSerializer) using WCF using wsHttp. I\'m using message security and woul

Answer 1

Some lighter, but not guaranteed solutions, would be to

• use the DataContractSerializer instead since you own both sides. This does not require embedded type information, which is significantly large.
• use [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false)] which is discussed in a question I asked - again because you own both sides; doing so will cut down some on the message size (how much depends of course on how many fields in the graph are defaults).
• use [DataContract(IsReference=true)], especially if you have many repeated value objects or reference data
• use some sort of throttling on the server to reduce memory pressure of simultaneous results

These are, of course trade-offs, for example with readability.