I personally like ProtocolBuffers see :
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-net/
>From their website:
/protocol buffers is the name of the binary serialization format used by
Google for much of their data communications. It is designed to be:
small in size - efficient data storage (far smaller than xml)
cheap to process - both at the client and server
platform independent - portable between different programming
architectures
extensible - to add new data to old messages
protobuf-net is a .NET implementation of this, allowing you to serialize
your .NET objects efficiently and easily. It is compatible with most of the
.NET family, including .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5, .NET CF 2.0/3.5, Mono 2.x,
Silverlight 2, etc.
/
This runs about 30-50 times as quick as Soap! You would need to write code
to send over TCP/IP using sockets, a REST service or some such depending on
what your exact requirements were.
If is also cross platform so the code on either end can be any of the
supported languages.
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