WCF

Hi Prashant,

You cannot define WCF contracts that rely on generic type parameters. Generics are specific to .NET, and using them would violate the service-oriented nature of WCF. However, you can use bounded generic types in your data contracts, as long as you specify the type parameters in the service contract and as long as the specified type parameters have valid data contracts.

Example Using bounded generic types:

[DataContract]
class MyClass
{
[DataMember]
public T MyMember;
}

[ServiceContract]
interface IMyContract
{
[OperationContract]
void MyMethod(MyClass obj);
}

Please refer below link.. I hope it will helop You more.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479866.aspx

Thanks.

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Aarti15y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Prashant,

You cannot define WCF contracts that rely on generic type parameters. Generics are specific to .NET, and using them would violate the service-oriented nature of WCF. However, you can use bounded generic types in your data contracts, as long as you specify the type parameters in the service contract and as long as the specified type parameters have valid data contracts.

Example Using bounded generic types:

[DataContract]
class MyClass
{
[DataMember]
public T MyMember;
}

[ServiceContract]
interface IMyContract
{
[OperationContract]
void MyMethod(MyClass obj);
}

Please refer below link.. I hope it will helop You more.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479866.aspx

Thanks.
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Priya Linge15y ago
Hi,

Please check below link.

http://jeffbarnes.net/blog/post/2007/05/10/wcf-serialization-and-generics.aspx

Hope this will help you.

Thanks.
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