WCF Bindings summary

Thought to post this summary in here for my and others reference for Bindings

Binding	Security Default Configurable	Transport Protocol	Encoding Default Other	Host
basicHttpBinding	None, Transport, Message, Mixed	HTTP	Text/XML, MTOM	IIS, WAS
wsHttpBinding	Message, Transport, Mixed	HTTP	Text/XML, MTOM	IIS, WAS
netTcpBinding	Transport, Message, Mixed	TCP	Binary	WAS
netNamedPipeBinding	Transport,None	Named Pipe	Binary	WAS
netMsmqBinding	Message, Transport, None	TCP	Binary	WAS
netPeerTcpBinding	Transport	P2P	Binary

Using Attributes VS elements

Thought to scribble here a little bit. Here is what I learned designing a XML object repository

1. For data use child elements don’t use attributes

2. For quarrying purposes – its ok to use attributes. I hate to write

if(attribute==null) – 

Here are some things that I concluded

• Attributes cannot contain multiple values, child elements can and so that later addition can be less code breaking
• Attributes are not easily expandable -for future changes
• Attributes cannot describe structures / hierarchies for data - child elements can
• attributes are more difficult to manipulate by program code – LINQ / XQuarry works better with element. – that’s just me
• Attribute values are not easy to test against a DTD