{"id":463,"date":"2007-08-20T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/andrewarnottms\/2007\/08\/20\/the-wcf-subset-supported-by-netcf\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T22:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:45:31","slug":"the-wcf-subset-supported-by-netcf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/the-wcf-subset-supported-by-netcf\/","title":{"rendered":"The WCF subset supported by NetCF"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Updated: 21Nov07 to clarify that custom headers are supported, but not in NetCFSvcUtil proxy generation]
[Updated: 27Aug07 to correct Gzip sample, and clarify on transports & extensibility]
[Updated: 23Aug07 to add SecurityAlgorithmSuite enumerable]<\/p>\n

Many people have been asking about what subset of .NET 3.0’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) will be supported by the .NET Compact Framework 3.5.  Well, here is a table I put together with the answer to that question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Feature<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Desktop WCF<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Compact WCF<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Bindings:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· BasicHttpBinding<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· CustomBinding<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· WindowsMobileMailBinding<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· ExchangeWebServiceMailBinding<\/td>\nYes, via NetCF install<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Formatters:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· SoapFormatter<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· BinaryFormatter<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Encoders:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· TextMessageEncoder<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· MTOMEncoder<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· GzipEncoder<\/td>\nSample available<\/td>\nSample available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transports:<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· HttpTransportBindingElement<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· HttpsTransportBindingElement<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· MailTransportBindingElement<\/td>\nYes, via NetCF install<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· MsmqTransportBindingElement<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· TcpTransportBindingElement<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· (other transports)<\/td>\n Yes<\/td>\nNo <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
XmlDictionaryReader\/Writer<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes; stub around XmlTextReader\/Writer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DataContractSerializer<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo; but can be wire-compatible with DCS via XmlSerializer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Service proxy generation<\/strong><\/td>\nYes; via SvcUtil.exe<\/td>\nYes; via NetCFSvcUtil.exe, not integrated into VS2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Non-HTTP transports in generated proxies<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNot built-in<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Custom headers in generated proxies<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNot built-in<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WS-Addressing<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WS-Security message level security<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· X.509<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Username\/password<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· SecurityAlgorithmSuite.Basic256Rsa15<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· SecurityAlgorithmSuite.Basic256<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WS-ReliableMessaging<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patterns<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Service model<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Message layer programming<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Buffered messages<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Streaming messages<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
· Endpoint descriptions in .config files<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Channel extensibility<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Security channel extensibility<\/strong><\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Updated: 21Nov07 to clarify that custom headers are supported, but not in NetCFSvcUtil proxy generation] [Updated: 27Aug07 to correct Gzip sample, and clarify on transports & extensibility] [Updated: 23Aug07 to add SecurityAlgorithmSuite enumerable] Many people have been asking about what subset of .NET 3.0’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) will be supported by the .NET Compact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4617,3917,3918,383],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-permierdev","tag-andarno","tag-mobile-devices","tag-netcf","tag-wcf"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

[Updated: 21Nov07 to clarify that custom headers are supported, but not in NetCFSvcUtil proxy generation] [Updated: 27Aug07 to correct Gzip sample, and clarify on transports & extensibility] [Updated: 23Aug07 to add SecurityAlgorithmSuite enumerable] Many people have been asking about what subset of .NET 3.0’s Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) will be supported by the .NET Compact […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}