Inheriting from a generic contract in WCF

Question

More WCF woes... :)

All my workflows implement the same 3 methods. After a lot of copy and paste, I decided to make them inherit from the same interface:

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Answer 1

Why don't you specify a name for your contract in the ServiceContract attribute:

[
ServiceContract
   (
    Namespace = "http://schema.company.com/messages/", 
    Name="MyBasicContract"
    )
]

If you don't explicitlly specify a name, it will default to the qualified name of your interface in "that weird syntax that .NET uses".

Answer 2

"that weird syntax that .NET uses" is actually the type name at runtime for a generic type bound to specific types. Typename`n[[Type],...] where n denotes the number of type arguments contained in your generic type.

How does your endpoint configuration then look like?

Answer 3

You must use the standard way of defining generic types in configuration file if you want to use a service contract like IBasicContract

It is written in the configuration file like this: IBasicContract`2[TRequest,TResponse]

I also replied on my blog (www.lybecker.com/blog/) as you posted the question their too.

:-) Anders Lybecker