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edosoft
edosoft

Reputation: 17281

Can I pass a System.Net.MailMessage to a WCF service?

I'd like to setup a WCF service to send emails. The System.Net.MailMessage doesn't seem to be serializable, and cannot be passed in a [DataContract]

The error I receive is

Type 'System.Net.Mail.MailAddress' cannot be serialized. Consider marking it with the DataContractAttribute

Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3495

Answers (1)

Guy Starbuck
Guy Starbuck

Reputation: 21873

Whatever you pass to a WCF service needs to be either XML or binary serializable.

A "classic" messaging approach would be:

  1. Create a simple DataContract class that has all the required properties of MailMessage
  2. Prior to calling the service, set all the properties for the MailMessage in a new instance of your DataContract class
  3. Call the service, passing the DataContract
  4. Inside the service, create a new instance of MailMessage and assign the properties into it, then send it

Upvotes: 3

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