Code sample: Add GZip support (Silverlight)

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If you're using a ServiceReferences.ClientConfig to customize communications in your Silverlight client, messages to and from the EntityServer won't be compressed as in the default configuration. Here we show how to work around that limitation and add GZip support for compressed messages.

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Problem

When using a ServiceReferences.ClientConfig in your Silverlight application to customize communications (for example, to override default timeout values), you cannot add the GZip binding extension within the <system.serviceModel> section.

This is because the .ClientConfig in Silverlight does not allow the same configuration settings as a standard .config file.

Solution

To work around this limitation, you can implement a simple class which extends the ServiceProxyEvents to programmatically add GZip support.

using System.ServiceModel.Channels;
using IdeaBlade.Core.Wcf.Extensions;

public class ProxyEvents : IdeaBlade.EntityModel.ServiceProxyEvents {

public override void OnEndpointCreated(System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceEndpoint endpoint) {
   base.OnEndpointCreated(endpoint);

   // Sample adding Gzip compression programmatically.
   // Use when using a ServiceReferences.ClientConfig where a gzip binding cannot be added declaratively (this is a
   // Silverlight limitation since it does not support extensions via config).

   if (endpoint.Binding is CustomBinding) {

      var binding = endpoint.Binding as CustomBinding;
      var elements = binding.CreateBindingElements();

     // Swap out binary/text message encoding for gzip/binary
     var encoding = elements.Find<MessageEncodingBindingElement>();
     if (encoding != null) {
        elements.Remove(encoding);
      }

      encoding = new GZipMessageEncodingBindingElement();
      elements.Insert(0, encoding);
      endpoint.Binding = new CustomBinding(elements);

    }
  }
}

Imports System.ServiceModel.Channels
Imports IdeaBlade.Core.Wcf.Extensions

Public Class ProxyEvents
Inherits IdeaBlade.EntityModel.ServiceProxyEvents

Public Overrides Sub OnEndpointCreated(ByVal endpoint As System.ServiceModel.Description.ServiceEndpoint)
  MyBase.OnEndpointCreated(endpoint)

  ' Sample adding Gzip compression programmatically.
  ' Use when using a ServiceReferences.ClientConfig where a gzip binding cannot be added declaratively (this is a
  ' Silverlight limitation since it does not support extensions via config).

  If TypeOf endpoint.Binding Is CustomBinding Then

Dim binding = TryCast(endpoint.Binding, CustomBinding)
Dim elements = binding.CreateBindingElements()

' Swap out binary/text message encoding for gzip/binary
Dim encoding = elements.Find(Of MessageEncodingBindingElement)()
If encoding IsNot Nothing Then
elements.Remove(encoding)
End If

encoding = New GZipMessageEncodingBindingElement()
elements.Insert(0, encoding)
endpoint.Binding = New CustomBinding(elements)

  End If
End Sub
End Class

Here's a sample ServiceReferences.ClientConfig for reference. Note the binding is using the BinaryMessageEncoding element, which will be replaced at run time by the ServiceProxyEvents implementation above.

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Created by DevForce on March 03, 2011 18:04

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