A Bad Idea, EF Entities over WCF

Posted by: Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax), on 25 Jun 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Do you want to see something very ugly ?. Try to send a complete EF entity directly as a data contract over the wire with WCF, <Order xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" z:Id="i1" xmlns:z="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/ClassLibrary2">   <EntityKey xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data" i:nil="true" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Data.Objects.DataClasses"...

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