The previous post mentioned how to return arbitrary data from WCF services. To receive data, however, there is one extra step, which I'll try to explain here. Like returning arbitrary data, the key for accepting arbitrary (in any format) data is for...

I've seen quite a few times in the forums people asking how to control exactly how the data returned by a WCF service. People want to use a certain format for the output of the data which isn't (natively) supported by WCF, such as XML or JSON. A few examples...