How can I stream a response from WCF without buffering?

Question

I have a restful (webHttpBinding) self-hosted WCF service. Most methods are returning xml or json version of objects to the client.

I have a couple of GET methods that t

Answer 1

I do file streaming like this:

Group the methods that returns data which needs to be streamed into an endpoint and then add the streamed transferMode on that endpoint.

Here is the configuration I use (for basicHttpBinding).

and the define the binding configuration:

Basically, you have to set the transferMode in the binding configuration.

I haven't tried it with webHttpBinding, so please let me know if it works for you.