Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 3. Data Representation

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• Background

• The XmlSerializer and the DataContractSerializer

• The XML Fetish

• Using the DataContractSerializer

• Exception Handling

• References

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Background

The Windows Communication Foundation provides a language, called the Service Model, for modeling software communications. Software executables can be generated from models expressed in that language using the classes of a lower-level programming framework called the Channel Layer.

In the language of the Service Model, a piece of software that responds to communications over a network is a service. A service has one or more endpoints to which communications can be directed. An endpoint consists of an address, a binding, and a ...