Question

I have a LINQ model containing an entity which is populated by a stored procedure. A couple of the fields returned by the procedure are nullable bit fields, so I’ve created these as nullable booleans on the model. I’d expect this to work fine, but when I run my application I get the following exception from System.Runtime.Serialization…

The formatter threw an exception while trying to deserialize the
message: There was an error while trying to deserialize parameter
urn:Nbs.PrePaidCards.ChargebackService:GetUnlinkedChargebacksAndRepresentmentsResult.
The InnerException message was ‘ValueType ‘System.Boolean’ cannot be
null.’. Please see InnerException for more details.

Now I’d understand this if I was trying to populate a regular bool field with a null, but since the property is Nullable, this has me a bit stumped!

Had anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it?

Thanks

Answer 1

The problem was caused by an out of date service reference on my client, so whilst the service had a nullable bool field, the proxy on the client was still expecting a regular bool field, hence the serialization exception.