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WCF proxy client generated with wsdl not matching for ServiceContract, XmlSerializerFormat attributes




I am developing WCF services in .net 3.5 framework and hosting them in IIS 5.1 windows xp sp3 with basicHttpBiding.

Services consuming client developed in .net 2.0 framework. For this I generated proxy client using WSDL.EXE. This tool generates proxy class without any problem, but the problem it adds for every property adds extra property "[property]Specified", but that work fine without any problem, only need to specify "specified = true" when assigning value to any property

To remove this extra property I added XmlSerializerFormat attribe along with ServiceContract attribute. WSDL.EXE generates the class without extra property, but it excludes some class which are included previously.

Is there any properties that I need to set to generate the excluded classes?

Note: All contract classes are attributed with DataContract and properties with DataMemeber.


nRk


Solution

  • XmlSerializer uses XmlIncludeAttribute instead of KnownTypeAttribute to discover child types that are not included in operation contracts. So you might try adding them to the base class:

    [XmlInclude(typeof(ChildClass1))]
    [XmlInclude(typeof(ChildClass2))]
    public class BaseClass {}