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Jaswant Agarwal
Jaswant Agarwal

Reputation: 4915

Why is the OperationContract attribute required in a WCF service function?

Why is the OperationContract attribute required in a WCF service function?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7829

Answers (1)

Randy Levy
Randy Levy

Reputation: 22655

The OperationContact attribute explicitly declares that a method is an operation on a ServiceContract.

Why is it required? The main reason is that most of WCF is opt-in and this is no different. WCF does not assume that simply because a method is part of an interface that you want to expose that method as a service operation. It is left to the programmer to decide (and explicitly indicate) what they want to expose.

Upvotes: 7

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