March, 2011

WCF performance has many aspects. In the previous series I explored how using GZip/Deflate compression can increase performance in areas with low network latency. However, the penalty is that the CPU utilization is much higher. Therefore, it does not...

The aim of compressing the messages sent from a WCF service is to reduce the amount of traffic on the wire. You could be doing this because you're in a hosted environment such as a cloud service and you have to pay for bandwidth. The tradeoff for compression...

In this post, I will run a client and service with the GZipMessageEncoder on the same machine and analyze the performance. The WCF sample application for GZipMessageEncoder has been suitable up until now for functional testing. For performance testing...

The GZipMessageEncoder is a great sample for learning about MessageEncoders in general. In this post, I will expand the GZipMessageEncoder to do both GZip and Deflate compression. This will accomplish two things: (1) explain various pieces of a MessageEncoder...

The compression options for WCF out of the box are limited in .Net 4.0. However, a sample is provided for GZip compression that shows you how to write your own MessageEncoder that can wrap the output of another encoder and apply GZip to the messages....

The StreamUpgradeProvider in WCF is not a well-known extension point. Nicholas Allen has a great set of blog posts describing how to use this. You can start reading that with this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/drnick/archive/2006/09/07/stream-upgrades_2c00_...