Sharing custom types with client and services apps? Use WCF

Posted by: Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., on 24 Sep 2007 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

One of the very difficult to solve problems in .NET client & web service solutionsis sharing custom objects between the web service and the client. Here's the scenario. You have a business layer with some serializable objects. Let's say the namespace is "MyLovelyBAL" and the object is "MyLovelyObject". You have an operation in your web service that returns one of those objects. Now you build a client, say a Windows Forms app ("MyWinApp") that will call into that Web Service, and you are not...

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