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Can I use net.TCP along with GZip technology in WCF

Can we use net.TCP binding to implement GZip in WCF or it can only be configured with Http and WsHttp bindings.

Solution

  • I don't believe WCF supports GZip encoding using a TCP socket binding, however there is nothing stopping you sending GZiped compressed data over the wire, and manually compressing it using the methods built into the .NET framework: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.gzipstream.aspx.

    Before you go down this route however, I would strongly recommend assesing other performance enhancing measures on your TCP services as detailed here: Transmitting the least amount of data over the wire with WCF