WCF Service proxy not generating custom Enum types

Question

I am making reference to a service that exposes an Enum type in the service namespace. When the proxy is generated the Enum type is not present. What causes this to occur and how do I resolve?

Note: adding this as a web reference generates the type, as a service reference it does not.

Answer 1

If you are not using the Enum inside your ServiceContract - it may not be known. You could try using KnownType and marking the Enum as public with DataContract and each Enum member as EnumMember.

You should also try explicitly assigning values to the Enum types like this:

[DataContract]
public enum EnumType
{
    [EnumMember]
    Value1= 0,
    [EnumMember]
    Value2 = 1
}

instead of...

[DataContract]
public enum EnumType
{
    [EnumMember]
    Value1,
    [EnumMember]
    Value2
}