Does WCF always use SOAP to send information over your binding?

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Published on 2010-05-03T20:03:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 20:08 UTC
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I understand you can choose from a range of bindings, such as TCP, HTTP, HTTPS etc.

Am I correct in thinking it always uses SOAP to send data over this connection? I am watching a guide to WCF and it is talking about how exceptions are serialized into SOAP and sent to the client. I would have thought that not all bindings would use SOAP to send data, so I am a bit confused about how it works.

Although I understand the fundamentals of WCF, how to set up services and use a proxy on the client, it doesn't seem to have explained exactly how the data is packaged up to send.

Perhaps the answer is obvious, that it just uses XML / SOAP, but I would love to know for sure!

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