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

Typically, the generated proxy will have "XField" and "YField" as internal/protected/private fields, and expose the values through properties called "X" and "Y". There are options you can set when creating the proxy client to tweak that to your liking, I think.

UPDATE: I don't seem to find any switches or options to control this behavior. It might depend on which serializer (DataContractSerializer vs. XmlSerializer) WCF uses for creating the client proxy.

In the end, it's really more or less just an issue of coding style - functionally, it shouldn't make a difference.

Marc