I am converting a web service into WCF. In that service web methods are returning xmldocument which is not supported in WCF.

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When i am creating Operation contracts it is working fine while consuming it is not supporting.

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I am simply remove the web method tag and decorate the code with operation contract there is no code change. I have tried to change the XMLDocument as return type to XMLElement but the inner code is designed for the whole xmldocument return.

Please do help me.

Posted 27-Apr-17 21:20pm

Geetika_Sen

Updated 18-May-17 0:46am

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Bohdan Stupak · Answer 1 · 2017-05-18T00:46:00

Solution 1

You might use

C#

XmlSerializerFormat

C#

[OperationContract,XmlSerializerFormat]
XmlDocument YourMethod();

Also you could redesing the code to return

C#

XElement

instead

Posted 18-May-17 0:46am

Bohdan Stupak