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dopplesoldner
dopplesoldner

Reputation: 9479

c# - working with COM+ object in WCF

I am using a third party dll for image processing which returns COM objects. Currently I have declared DataContract classes which include some of the information I need from the returned COM objects.

If I want to extend the functionality of my WCF service, is there a way to return the COM object directly or will I be required to create new classes and decorate them using DataContract manually? (~30 classes)

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 101

Answers (1)

Shiraz Bhaiji
Shiraz Bhaiji

Reputation: 65391

You cannot send a Reference to a COM Object over WCF.

You must serialize it in some way. If the COM Object has a serialize Method you could serialize it to a text, send it over WCF and deserialize it on the other side. But then you need a Reference to the COM object defination on the Client side.

Simplest is to create the New classes, you could try some code generation Tools like resharper to help.

Upvotes: 2

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