Transmitting the least amount of data over the wire with WCF

Question

My project has a netTCP WCF service. This is the app.config for it:

Answer 1

It depends upon the sort of data that you're sending, but if you're using serialization to create the data, then serializing to XML and compressing that with a GZipStream can result in fewer bytes than compressing the data generated by a binary serialization.