Why we cant return List in ASMX web services?

Question

As developers know we cant return List with web services, we can only return lists with converting them to .ToArray(); I\'ve searched some, but cant ge

Answer 1

As far as I am aware as long as you explicitly declare you are returning a List (of T) method title you can return the object; otherwise you will receive a serialize error.

e.g

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Public Function Search(ByVal SearchTerm As String) As List(Of 'object here')