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Monday, May 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Private Data Members

Why does a data contract with private or internal members generate a proxy with public fields? The obvious answer is that the representation for data contracts doesn't contain information about member visibility but that just leads to the question of
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 31, 2008 5:00 AM

Differences in Guid Serialization

Why do the guids in my contract turn into strings when generating a client? You're probably mixing different types of serializers between the client and service. There's nothing wrong with this and the generated client will work correctly but you don't
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 5 Comments
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:00 AM

ContractNamespaceAttribute

Back when I did an overview of custom namespaces , I omitted any namespace declarations that wouldn't appear in the final metadata. One of those declarations is the default namespace for data contracts. I had two example data contracts, one for faults
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Friday, August 10, 2007 5:00 AM

Serializing UniqueId

Why can't UniqueId be serialized? Data contracts only have native support for a limited set of types. If you use a type that is not in this native set, then you'll get an exception that the data contract is invalid unless you decorate the type with attributes
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 5:00 AM

Custom Namespaces

If you've ever looked at a generated WSDL file, you may be wondering how all of the different parts of the service description are reassembled to form WSDL. Today's article is about the namespaces in the WSDL file. Here's an example service that provides
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 7 Comments
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:00 AM

Data Contract and Message Contract

I have an existing web service that I need to replace with a WCF web service. How do I choose between using a data contract and a message contract? There are actually three choices to consider for describing the messages that your service uses: data contracts,
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
 
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