EF4 POCO WCF Serialization problems (no lazy loading, proxy/no proxy, circular references, etc)

Question

OK, I want to make sure I cover my situation and everything I\'ve tried thoroughly. I\'m pretty sure what I need/want can be done, but I haven\'t quite found the perfect combin

Answer 1

hrmm, I may not have fully understood the issue, but everytime I run into circular references with WCF the answer is to change [DataContract] on the offending classes to [DataContract(IsReference = true)].

This is a huge help compared to all the drek of messing with the contract resolvers that was needed pre WCF 3.5 SP1.

Hope this helps.