Strongly Typed Collections

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Dave T - 17 Mar 2008 22:42 GMT

I'm writing a web service that I want to return a strongly typed collection.
If I inherit System.collections.generic.list(of T) it returns an ArrayOfT.
If I inherit CollectionsBase, it also returns an ArrayOf. I want the root
xml element to just be of the class itself (if that makes any sense). Is
this even possible? What do I need to inherit?

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sloan - 17 Mar 2008 22:51 GMT

If you want a strong object/collection on the outside world (of a web
service)...then the client needs to know something about some kind of strong
collection.
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Take a look here:
http://sholliday.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A68482B9628A842A!158.entry

I have a IZebraCollection.......which the service and the host know about.

Its WCF, but WCF can be exposed as a webservice.

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> I'm writing a web service that I want to return a strongly typed
> collection.
> If I inherit System.collections.generic.list(of T) it returns an ArrayOfT.
> If I inherit CollectionsBase, it also returns an ArrayOf. I want the root
> xml element to just be of the class itself (if that makes any sense). Is
> this even possible? What do I need to inherit?

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