Question

I’ve got a WCF Web Service method whose prototype is:

[OperationContract] Response<List<Customer>> GetCustomers(); 

When I add the service reference to a client, Visual Studio (2005) creates a type called ‘ResponseOfArrayOfCustomerrleXg3IC’ that is a wrapper for ‘Response<List<Customer>>’. Is there any way I can control the wrapper name? ResponseOfArrayOfCustomerrleXg3IC doesn’t sound very appealing…

Answer 1

You can define your own name in the DataContract attribute like this:

[DataContract(Name = 'ResponseOf{0}')] public class Response<T> 

Note that in your example the {0} will be replaced and your proxy reference type will be ResponseOfArrayOfCustomer.

More info here: WCF: Serialization and Generics