Following up on this, here are some more aggregated shareable details with regards to the Compact Framework 3.5:
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Feature |
Desktop WCF |
Compact WCF |
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Bindings: |
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· BasicHttpBinding |
Yes |
Yes |
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· CustomBinding |
Yes |
Yes |
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· WindowsMobileMailBinding |
N/A |
Yes |
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· ExchangeWebServiceMailBinding |
Yes, via NetCF install |
Yes |
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Formatters: |
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|
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· SoapFormatter |
Yes |
Yes |
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· BinaryFormatter |
Yes |
No |
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Encoders: |
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· TextMessageEncoder |
Yes |
Yes |
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· BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement |
Yes |
No |
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· MTOMEncoder |
Yes |
No |
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· GzipEncoder |
No |
Sample available |
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Transports: |
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|
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· HttpTransportBindingElement |
Yes |
Yes |
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· HttpsTransportBindingElement |
Yes |
Yes |
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· MailTransportBindingElement |
Yes, via NetCF install |
Yes |
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· MsmqTransportBindingElement |
Yes |
No |
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· TcpTransportBindingElement |
Yes |
No |
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XmlDictionaryReader/Writer |
Yes |
Yes; stub around XmlTextReader/Writer |
|
DataContractSerializer |
Yes |
No; but can be wire-compatible with DCS via XmlSerializer |
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Service proxy generation |
Yes; via SvcUtil.exe |
Yes; via NetCFSvcUtil.exe, not integrated into VS2008 |
|
· Non-HTTP transports |
Yes |
No |
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· Custom headers |
Yes |
No |
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WS-Addressing |
Yes |
Yes |
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WS-Security message level security |
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|
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· X.509 |
Yes |
Yes |
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· Username/password |
Yes |
No |
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WS-ReliableMessaging |
Yes |
No |
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Patterns |
|
|
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· Service model |
Yes |
No |
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· Message layer programming |
Yes |
Yes |
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o Buffered messages |
Yes |
Yes |
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o Streaming messages |
Yes |
No |
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· Endpoint descriptions in .config files |
Yes |
No |
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Extensibility |
Yes |
Yes |