Transmitting the least amount of data over the wire with WCF

Question

My project has a netTCP WCF service. This is the app.config for it:

Answer 1

The message encoding specified by the binding will determine how your data gets turned into bytes on the wire. For the NetTcpBinding, it will automatically use binary encoding which gives you the most compact representation of your message out of all the built-in WCF encoders.

For more information, I would recommend these resources:

1. Zulfiqar Ahmed: SOAP message size optimization: Encoding vs compression
2. Kenny Wolf: Performance Characteristics of WCF Encoders
3. MSDN: Choosing a Message Encoder