Lara Kannan

WCF Binding Comparison

In my ongoing quest to produce the simplest table possible summarizing the key differences between the various Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) built-in bindings, I came up with the following:

Binding Class Name	Transport	Message Encoding	Message Version	Security Mode
BasicHttpBinding	HTTP	Text	SOAP 1.1	None
WSHttpBinding	HTTP	Text	SOAP 1.2 & WS-A 1.0	Message
WSDualHttpBinding	HTTP	Text	SOAP 1.2 & WS-A 1.0	Message
WSFederationHttpBinding	HTTP	Text	SOAP 1.2 & WS-A 1.0	Message
NetTcpBinding	TCP	Binary	SOAP 1.2	Transport
NetPeerTcpBinding	P2P	Binary	SOAP 1.2	Transport
NetNamedPipesBinding	Named Pipes	Binary	SOAP 1.2	Transport
NetMsmqBinding	MSMQ	Binary	SOAP 1.2	Message
MsmqIntegrationBinding	MSMQ	X**	Not Supported	Transport