Question

Stackoverflow is definetly the fastest forum so after posting this question in the WCF forum I decided to come here.

I have a wcf service which returns a dictionary (IDictionary) and that works just fine. Now I wanted to add the capability of calling that service in async mode, but when the BeginMethod gets executed I get the following Exception:

The type
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[[System.String,
mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089],[TransferProp,
Contracts, Version=10.1.0.0,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=6f5bf81c27b6b8aa]] is
not supported because it implements
IDictionary.

What’s up with that?

Answer 1

This (CodeIdol) blog talks about deriving your own CollectionDataContract collection and returning this. Does this help?

[CollectionDataContract]
public class MyDictionary : Dictionary<int,Contact>
{}

[ServiceContract]
interface IContactManager
{
   ...
   [OperationContract]
   MyDictionary GetContacts( );
}