http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspxHow does a DataContract type get initialized on the server? When I change the constructor for the type, nothing happens. Older serializers relied on calling the parameter-less constructor to initialize the type when deserializing data. Data contract typesenCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspx#6400990Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:04:36 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6400990Rob<p>How does the data contract get instantiated without a constructor being called?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspx#6402283Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:09:23 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6402283Jason Haleyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspx#6404427Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:51:31 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6404427Nicholas Allen<p>Hi Rob,</p> <p>I believe it's this method that gets called to instantiate the object.</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.formatterservices.getuninitializedobject.aspx">http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.serialization.formatterservices.getuninitializedobject.aspx</a></p> http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspx#6404509Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:55:09 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6404509Nicholas Allen's Indigo Blog<p>Message replay is an attack where a message is presented to a processor more than once in the hopes of</p> http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspx#6421504Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:28:59 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6421504Nen<p>Very intresting, what i dont understand is why is the service instansitated until and unless the OnSerialized method is completed, shouldn't the value from the client be passed after the &nbsp;OnSerialized method is completed.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2007/11/19/serialization-and-types.aspx#6440860Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:31:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:6440860Nicholas Allen<p>Hi Nen,</p> <p>You're actually correct. &nbsp;The service is not instantiated until OnSerialized returns. &nbsp;I didn't notice that I had those out of order when I drafted the list.</p>