MessageEncodingBindingElement Class

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The binding element that specifies the message version used to encode messages.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  System.ServiceModel.Channels.BindingElement
    System.ServiceModel.Channels.MessageEncodingBindingElement
      System.ServiceModel.Channels.BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement
      System.ServiceModel.Channels.TextMessageEncodingBindingElement

Namespace:  System.ServiceModel.Channels
Assembly:  System.ServiceModel (in System.ServiceModel.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public MustInherit Class MessageEncodingBindingElement _
    Inherits BindingElement

public abstract class MessageEncodingBindingElement : BindingElement

The MessageEncodingBindingElement type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	MessageEncodingBindingElement()	Initializes a new instance of the MessageEncodingBindingElement class.
	MessageEncodingBindingElement(MessageEncodingBindingElement)	Initializes a new instance of the MessageEncodingBindingElement class initialized from an existing element.

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Properties

	Name	Description
	MessageVersion	When overridden in a derived class, gets or sets the message version that can be handled by the message encoders produced by the message encoder factory.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	BuildChannelFactory<TChannel>	Initializes a channel factory for producing channels of a specified type from the binding context. (Inherited from BindingElement.)
	CanBuildChannelFactory<TChannel>	Returns a value that indicates whether the binding element can build a channel factory for a specific type of channel. (Inherited from BindingElement.)
	Clone	When overridden in a derived class, returns a copy of the binding element object. (Inherited from BindingElement.)
	CreateMessageEncoderFactory	When overridden in a derived class, creates a factory for producing message encoders.
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetProperty<T>	Returns the typed object requested, if present, from the appropriate layer in the channel stack. (Overrides BindingElement.GetProperty<T>(BindingContext).)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Remarks

Encoding is the process of transforming a message into a sequence of bytes. Decoding is the reverse process. Silverlight includes one type of encoding for SOAP messages: Text.

Use this class if you want to implement a custom message encoder. To implement your own custom message encoder, you must provide custom implementations of the following three abstract base classes:

• MessageEncodingBindingElement

• MessageEncoderFactory

• MessageEncoder

Override the Encoder to return an instance of your custom MessageEncoder. Override the CreateMessageEncoderFactory method to return an instance of this factory.

Examples

The following code example shows how to implement a class derived from MessageEncodingBindingElement.

Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5, 4, 3

Silverlight for Windows Phone

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.1, Windows Phone OS 7.0

XNA Framework

Supported in: Windows Phone OS 7.0

Platforms

For a list of the operating systems and browsers that are supported by Silverlight, see Supported Operating Systems and Browsers.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

System.ServiceModel.Channels Namespace