April, 2009

Probably the aspect of WCF serialization developers have the hardest time with is known types. In fact, many developers don't even understand why DataContractSerializer needs known types. They get so used to the principles of object-oriented design that...

A common question developers have about serialization in .NET is what serializer they should use. The answer usually depends on two things: what format you want your serialized data to be in and whether you want to be working with shared types or shared...

In my last post , I claimed that one of the reasons you should try to avoid known types is that it significantly degrades performance. But you should never take anyone’s word about performance, so here’s an actual test comparing the performance of using...

For many WCF developers, service metadata import and export is a magical thing. You start your service with a serviceMetadataBehavior, set httpGetEnabled to true or add an IMetadataExchange endpoint, and metadata gets automatically generated for you....