Circular References and WCF

Question

I have generated my POCO entities using POCO Generator, I have more than 150+ tables in my database. I am sharing POCO entities all across the application layers including t

Answer 1

I had the same problem and resolved it by excluding the navigation property back to the parent from the DataContract

[DataContract]
public partial class Parent
{
        [Key]
        [DataMember]
        public virtual int ParentId { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public virtual string ParentName { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public virtual Child Child { get; set; }

}

[DataContract]
public partial class Child
{
        [Key]
        [DataMember]
        public virtual int ChildId { get; set; }

        [DataMember]
        public virtual string ChildName { get; set; }

        public virtual List Parents {get; set;}
}