Question

For my thesis I need to measure the performance of Binary Binding vs. basicHttp(Soap) Binding in WCF Services and a Silverlight Client for a specific object.

I already found some example performance data for these bindings.

I wonder how to measure them by myself for a specific object.

Are there any tools which make this process easy or how would you do that?

Answer 1

I did some tests some time ago (see here) but take them with a grain of salt as that was a very “unscientifical” test (and was done with SL3).

You will have to test several different scenarios: for example a simple object with very large value inside their properties will be very different than a huge list of simple objects, or an object with a huge number of variables with very small values.

Creating the testing harness should not be difficult, I suggest you just do an “echo” service that returns the parameter without touching it. On the client you can simply measure the time between call and answer.

Side note: Fiddler2 will be very useful to check what is happening at http-level.