Is there a generally accepted way to avoid having to use KnownType attributes on WCF services? I've been doing some research, and it looks like there are two options: Data contract resolver NetDa...

After reading the MSDN reference, I still have questions about when to use the KnownType attribute. I understand that the attribute communicates type information to the serializer, but when is this...

We have an abstract class that is the base for a number of different requests we send over a WCF service. It's an ugly heinous hack that every time we add a new request we have to remember to add t...

My client/server application is using WCF for communication, which has been great. However one shortcoming of the current architecture is that I must use known type configuration for certain transm...

please check the below example namespace GServices { [ServiceKnownType(typeof(SearchType))] [ServiceContract(SessionMode = SessionMode.Allowed)] public interface ITest { [OperationContract] ...

I develop (rewrite onto WCF) a file parsing web service accepting string[] and returning ISection[] but actually this is a set of nested interfaces: namespace Project.Contracts // Project.Contract...

I'm having the following error in my wcf client. NetDispatcherFaultException was unhandled. The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the message: There was an error while ...

I'm trying to specify a known type in my config, but I'm having problems with the fact that it derives from Object. I can make it work specifying the known type via attribute. But in this case I ne...

I have a service that returns an array of animal but the list can contain cats, dogs, etc, which all extend animal. I know I need to use either the KnownType or ServiceKnownType attribute, and on t...

I am having difficulty understanding how to exactly go about adding known types; for WCF, from a configuration file that is external to my wcf. I found an example of how to set the configuration fi...

I've read many articles about known types and i belive my example should work. But it doesn't. I'm getting the following exception on deserialization and don't understand why: Error in line 1 posi...

I have a type, let's call it Data<TKey>. I also have a WCF service contract that accepts a type (lets call it Wrapper) with a property of type Object (for reasons I won't go into, this isn't ...