Is it possible for a WCF Service method to return different types?
I already tried with Object but since it’s not a DataContract type it doesn’t work properly.
How can I do it?
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Is it possible for a WCF Service method to return different types?
I already tried with Object but since it’s not a DataContract type it doesn’t work properly.
How can I do it?
You could use
known types. Those could also be defined in the config file using the<system.runtime.serialization>section (see Additional Ways to Add Known Types in the article).This being said you probably want to define a base data contract type that all other possible data contracts will derive from and have your operation return this base data contract instead of using object.