HttpRequestMessageProperty.Method Property

public Message ProcessMessage(Message request)
{
    Message response = null;

    //The HTTP Method (e.g. GET) from the incoming HTTP request 
    //can be found on the HttpRequestMessageProperty. The MessageProperty 
    //is added by the HTTP Transport when the message is received.
    HttpRequestMessageProperty requestProperties =
        (HttpRequestMessageProperty)request.Properties[HttpRequestMessageProperty.Name];

    //Here we dispatch to different internal implementation methods 
    //based on the incoming HTTP verb. 
    if (requestProperties != null)
    {
        if (String.Equals("GET", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = GetCustomer(request);
        }
        else if (String.Equals("POST", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = UpdateCustomer(request);
        }
        else if (String.Equals("PUT", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = AddCustomer(request);
        }
        else if (String.Equals("DELETE", requestProperties.Method,
            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            response = DeleteCustomer(request);
        }
        else
        {
            //This service doesn't implement handlers for other HTTP verbs (such as HEAD), so we 
            //construct a response message and use the HttpResponseMessageProperty to 
            //set the HTTP status code to 405 (Method Not Allowed) which indicates the client  
            //used an HTTP verb not supported by the server.
            response = Message.CreateMessage(MessageVersion.None, String.Empty, String.Empty);

            HttpResponseMessageProperty responseProperty = new HttpResponseMessageProperty();
            responseProperty.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.MethodNotAllowed;

            response.Properties.Add( HttpResponseMessageProperty.Name, responseProperty );
        }
    }
    else
    {
        throw new InvalidOperationException( "This service requires the HTTP transport" );
    }

    return response;
}