#datacontract

DataContract Deserialization of lists

So i have a XML with this structure:

SomeNumbers Boolean Boolean 0x000 0 SomeOtherName true false 0x100 0 1 0x00000000 Infobar/Info> 2 0x00000000 Infobar2 3 0x00000000 InfoBar3 Component

Problem:

I was getting the error "The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly" when retrieving an array of a complex class.

Diagnosis:

It turns out that one of the enums in the class was not declared properly and this was causing this ambiguous error.

Solution:

Thanks to Merrick Chaffer for his article that told me what my I was missing.

The service needs the enum type to be registerd as a service known type:

[ServiceContract(Namespace = "")] [AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Allowed)] [ServiceKnownType(typeof(SuitType))] public class PokerService {

and the Enum needs each value used to have an [EnumMember] attribute: