<filter>

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09/15/2021

Defines a routing filter, which determines the type of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)MessageFilter to be used when evaluating incoming messages, as well any supporting data or parameters required by the filter.

<system.serviceModel>
  <routing>
    <filters>
      <filter>

Syntax

<routing>
  <filters>
    <filter customType="String"
            filterData="String"
            filterType="Action/Address/AddressPrefix/And/Custom/Endpoint/MatchAll/XPath"
            name="String" />
  </filters>
</routing>

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
customType	A string containing the fully qualified type name of the custom type to be used as a filter. If `filterType` is set to `custom`, this attribute contains the fully qualified type name of the class to create. `filterData` may also contain values to be used during evaluation of the custom type filter.
filterData	A string containing the filter data. For more information on how to specify this attribute, see FilterData.
filterType	A string containing the filter type. This attribute is of FilterType type. For more information on how this works with the `filterData` attribute, see FilterData.
name	A string containing the unique name of this filter element.

Child elements

None.

Parent elements

Element	Description
<routing>	A configuration section for defining a set of routing filters, which determine the type of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)MessageFilter to be used when evaluating incoming messages.

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