Why does WCF sometimes add “Field” to end of generated proxy types?

Question

Basically, I have a server-side type \"Foo\" with members X and Y. Whenever I use Visual Studio\'s \"Add Server Reference\" then I see the WSDL and the generated proxy both appe

Answer 1

I had the same issue, and sergiosp's answer got me headed in the right direction. Just adding some additional info to hopefully help someone else.

Adding [System.ServiceModel.XmlSerializerFormatAttribute()] to the interface, and re-generating the client code resolved the problem for me.

public interface IMyService
{
    [System.ServiceModel.XmlSerializerFormatAttribute()]
    [System.ServiceModel.OperationContract]
    recordResponse GetRecord(recordRequest request);

}