Is there a way to reduce the Bandwidth taken By WCF?

Question

I am newbie in WCF; I am developing a client server application and my goal is to execute some logic on the server side every one second.

I made small client to my WCF service using NetTcpBinding because it is the most optimized way in terms of BW (I understand) as it uses binary encoding?

After short tracing using TracePlus I found that when I call single function that does not take any parameter and return int value the size of the data sent from client to server is 400 byte!!

Is there a way to reduce this size? and if no this means I have to develop my application using native sockets? (the BW is critical issue in my case)

PS

Is 400 byte is acceptable size for calling method without arguments?

Answer 1

You can always author your own WCF transport/binding. Have you 'turned off' all the unneeded features on NetTcpBinding (e.g. security) when measuring the 400 bytes?