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Rob Bowman
Rob Bowman

Reputation: 8741

Expose WCF service to asmx client and WCF client

We have a WCF service that has operations which receive a List of data contract objects as their parameter and return a List of different data contract objects eg.

List<CheckOutResponse> ProcessCheckOut(List<CheckOutRequest> obj);

This service is currently being consumed by a WCF client and it works great.

We now need to expose the same service to a legacy application built on .NET 1.1. I understand the binding changes that I need to make in the service's web.config, use the basicHttp binding and set the correct service behavior etc.

My problem is the data contracts. I believe that the .NET 1.1 clients use the XMLSerializer and this cannot work with data contracts.

I really don't want to change the data contracts to some other .NET 1.1 compatible complex types because we'd then need a load of regression testing with the existing WCF client.

Has anyone worked out a solution to this problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 498

Answers (1)

John Saunders
John Saunders

Reputation: 161831

There should be no problem with the serialization. The .NET 1.1 client will simply see a structure that places the values into elements instead of attributes.

Upvotes: 2

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