Question

I have a class Car

public class Car
{
    private Member _owner;

    public string OwnerName
    {
        get { return _owner.Name; }
    }

    public Car(Member owner)
    {
        _owner = owner;
    }
}

I’m using it both at Silverlight application and wcf service

So, at application I call WCF service to give me instance of car class, but when I get it at application, I see that _owner is empy.

I know that it is empty because of private, but how can I deal with it?

I’m using this class in my app as model (MVVM) if it could helps :/

Answer 1

For a start none of your properties are marked as DataMembers. The class isn’t marked as a DataContract. If this is getting returned from a WCF service I would expect to see:

[Serializable]
[DataContract]
public class Car
{
      private Member _owner;
      [DataMember]
      public string OwnerName
      {
          //getter
          //setter
       }

      etc..
}  

Does Member have to be private? Could it be converted into a property?

Keep in mind that a [DataMember] property needs both a set and a get (so that WCF can read into and from the object).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733127.aspx