[protobuf] Re: What's the point of Protocol Buffers?

2010-07-25 Thread gsxr
On Jul 21, 10:57 pm, Tim Acheson tim.ache...@gmail.com wrote: I generally create web services using WCF or ASP.NET MVC. I don't get the point of Protocol Buffers. Am I missing something? snip I don't need to write any code to do the serialisation, either. I just define the return type of

Re: [protobuf] Re: What's the point of Protocol Buffers?

2010-07-25 Thread Marc Gravell
And of course, if you *are* happy using WCF and .NET, with all the simplicity that provides, you can *still* use protobuf, since protobuf-net includes a WCF hook that (if you desire) swaps-out the serializer used by WCF. So your *existing* .NET code (bereft of any .proto definition) can enjoy