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Fadi Mahrouss
Fadi Mahrouss

Reputation:

Passing a custom object to the web service

I'm using C# and I have windows form and web service...

I have a custom object that I want to send to the web service..

sometime, the object may contain a huge of data..

as a best performance, what is the best way to send a custom object to the web service?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5807

Answers (2)

Vin
Vin

Reputation: 6145

If you are using / plan to use WCF within the network(as opposed to internet), named pipes on WCF is fast and simple. Use primitive types to pass objects. A string xml (although verbose) or a light weight binary object will do.

If it's a wsHttp webservice, use string, I can't think of any other way you would pass a custom object, unless the service knows about it.

Upvotes: 0

Eugene Yokota
Eugene Yokota

Reputation: 95614

Web Services are designed to handle custom objects as long as they eventually breakdown into some standard types. As per sending a huge data, there are MTOM and older DIME. If it's within LAN and against other .NET client, you might want to look into non-Web Services ways like Remoting or plain http.

See How to: Enable a Web Service to Send and Receive Large Amounts of Data.

Upvotes: 2

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