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I need to transfer large Excel files over a WCF service. Our project requires generating some reports for the clients, and we use Excel to generate the reports.
Right now the project uses net.tcp binding, but we are considering switching over to http binding.
I read another post on SO about transferring large images and the answers all suggested using streaming. However I’m wondering what the best approach would be considering its an Excel file. The file sizes can sometimes approach ~10Mb.
Yes, streaming will work TCP or HTTP — you should use it. Using streaming will remove the need to have large in-memory buffers holding the entire file at once. This will increase scalability of your application.