How to expose enum attributes to WCF client

Question

I want to expose enum attributes to WCF client application, but I can only see enum values.

Here is the enum:

public enum TemplateType
{
    [EnumDes         


        

Answer 1

There is a workaround if the intention is to expose a display text for enum members, define your enum in this way in the contracts:

public enum EPaymentCycle
{
    [EnumMember(Value = "Month by Month")]
    Monthly,

    [EnumMember(Value = "Week by Week")]
    Weekly,

    [EnumMember(Value = "Hour by Hour")]
    Hours
}

The SvcUtils serialization produces an interesting result:

public enum EPaymentCycle : int
{

    [System.Runtime.Serialization.EnumMemberAttribute(Value="Month by Month")]
    MonthByMonth= 0,

    [System.Runtime.Serialization.EnumMemberAttribute(Value="Week by Week")]
    WeekbyWeek= 1,

    [System.Runtime.Serialization.EnumMemberAttribute(Value="Hour by Hour")]
    HourbyHour = 2
}

You can read the EnumMemberAttribute Value by reflection and there you got it. Also the xsd metadata file produced by svcutil serialization is as expected: