Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 15. Custom Transports

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• Introduction

• Transport Channels

• Message Encoders

• Completing the Stack

• Implementing a Transport Binding Element and an Encoder Binding Element

• Implementing Custom Binding Elements to Support an Arbitrary TCP Protocol

• References

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Introduction

This chapter completes the series covering the various ways of extending the Windows Communication Foundation. There are two primary ways of extending the technology to accommodate scenarios for which it does not explicitly provide: by adding custom behaviors and by adding custom bindings. Custom behaviors control the Windows Communication Foundation’s internal communication functions, such as the function of serializing outbound data into ...