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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:22:19+00:00

Ive been playing around with the entity framework with an idea for creating a

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Ive been playing around with the entity framework with an idea for creating a web service to be consumed by an application in sharepoint that a 3rd party developer is creating. Basically i need to return a list of jobs e.g list based on some search criteria. I wanted to use the EF so i have something scalable however it seems returning POCO’s from a web service is harder than i imagined it to be. Are web services and EF / POCO’s meant to work together. Does anyone have any good examples or can point me to some.

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    Are web services and EF / POCO’s meant to work together.

    Yes. The only thing you must to ensure is to make your entities serializable – POCO entities can contain circular references which are not serializable by default.

    What about consuming the web service? I read somewhere that the consumer has to reference the entity namespace to use the returned objects.

    This is not true with POCOs. This is only true with Self tracking entities.

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