Configuring WCF client and service for use with protobuf-net

Question

I decided to open a new question about this matter, maybe expanding this question, not having found a precise answer about the issue anywhere on the Internet.

I want

Answer 1

After concentrating a bit better, I decided to restart the solution from scratch. I created one class library for the EDMX with it's POCOs, one for ServiceContract and DataContracts and one for the actual WCF service implementation. Then I shared those two libraries containing ServiceContract and DataContracts, and POCOs with the WCF client and tried again, which yielded the same results as before. After trying some other operations which didn't use protobuf-net for serialization, turned out they behaved the same as the first one, resulting in empty fields (!).

The thing was that, I screwed my WCF client's .datasource files while refactoring after I decided to use the assembly sharing technique. So this was a typical PEBKAC, it of course works fine when done properly. Great work with protobuf-net, Marc Gravell!