Hi Giorgio,

Have you got any further ideas on this issue or does the info in my last
reply help some?

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From: stcheng@online.microsoft.com (Steven Cheng [MSFT])
Organization: Microsoft
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:57:53 GMT
Subject: RE: WCF Service and Collections

Hi Grorgio,

From your description, I think what you need to do is something like
sharing a colleciton type (used in your WCF service) between client and
service rather than let svctuil autogenerated proxy type, correct?

Based on my research, for specifying custom collection types in your own
assemblies for WCF service, when creating the proxy, you need to supply
both

/ct:[ collection type name]

and

/reference:[assembly of shared type]

Thus, the svcutil will use the specified type in the shared assembly
instead of generating its own proxy type. Here is a good web article
introducing this:

#Sharing WCF Collection Types between Service and Client
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFCollectionTypeSharing.aspx

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Reply-To: "Giorgio Parmeggiani" <gipasoft@tiscali.it>
From: "Giorgio Parmeggiani" <gparmeggiani@newsgroup.nospam>
Subject: WCF Service and Collections
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:45:17 +0200
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Hi

I am using the svcutil parameter: /ct to obtain IBindingList from WCF
Service.
I can exclude some collection or some WCF service methods from this
conversion? I have some strongly typed custom collections, which are
serializable, and I want, sometime, to use my custom collection, not
IBindingList.

Thank in advance
Giorgio