Question

I have a webservice that calls a method that returns a generic list of class BodyPartUrls like so:

public List<BodyPartUrls> getCharacterClassBody(int characterClassID) {     var bpulst = new List<BodyPartUrls>();     var iqcb = ydc.ClassBodies.Where(cb =>  cb.characterClassID == characterClassID);      foreach (var icb in iqcb)     {         var bpu = new BodyPartUrls();         bpu.bodyPartName = icb.BodyPart.bodyPartName;         bpu.bodyName = icb.Body.bodyName;         bpu.puppetID = characterClassID;         bpulst.Add(bpu);     }     return bpulst; } 

BodyPartUrls only consists of string and integer properties, note that ydc is refering to a datacontext. This the code in the webservice :

    [WebMethod]     public List<BodyPartUrls> getCharacterClassBody(int characterClassID)     {        return b.getCharacterClassBody(characterClassID);     } 

Now to call the method in silverlight I utalised the following code :

public void initialiseBodiesSoapClientClient() {     string webServiceUrl = pu.GetUrlForResource('Bodies.asmx');     System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding binding = new System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding();     EndpointAddress endpoint = new EndpointAddress(webServiceUrl);     bsc = new BodiesRef.BodiesSoapClient(binding, endpoint);     bsc.getCharacterClassBodyCompleted += new EventHandler<Yambushi.BodiesRef.getCharacterClassBodyCompletedEventArgs>(bsc_getCharacterClassBodyCompleted); } 

The method pu.GetUrlForResource get’s the url of where the webservice is hosted, the following is method bsc_getCharacterClassBodyCompleted :

void bsc_getCharacterClassBodyCompleted(object sender, Yambushi.BodiesRef.getCharacterClassBodyCompletedEventArgs e) {    bpulist = e.Result; } 

bpulist is a generic list of BodyPartUrls, for some reason e.Result is returning ObservableCollection instead of the generic list. I have similar code to retreive other generic lists that work fine so I really can’t understand why this is acting differently.

Answer 1

Click Configure Service Reference. Under the Data Type section you can select what type you want collections or dictionaries to return as.