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POWCF DataContract serialization of read-only properties?
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copied!<p>Whenever I use WCF, I always try to make immutable classes that end up going over the wire (i.e. parameters set in constructor, properties are read-only). However, this gets in the way of WCF serialization, which demands that all properties be Public get/set (which makes sense, because it has to deserialize them)</p> <p>Even in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/508661/wcf-datacontract-set-get-not-getting-executed">this related post</a>, I see that their solution ended up making everything Public, which violates my sense of good programming. Is there any way around this? Do I have to just settle for this solution or something like popsicle immutability and be happy with it?</p> <p>The other thing I tried was something like this, where I'd have a base class for everything and a derived class that made the set useless:</p> <pre><code>/// <summary> /// This represents a discovered virtual-machine template that can be /// instantiated into a RunningVirtualMachine /// </summary> [DataContract] [XmlRoot("VMTemplate")] public class VirtualMachineTemplateBase { [DataMember] public virtual ulong SizeInBytes { get; set; } } /// <summary> /// This class is the real guts of VirtualMachineTemplate that we're hiding /// from the base class. /// </summary> [XmlInclude(typeof(VirtualMachineTemplateBase))] public class VirtualMachineTemplate : VirtualMachineTemplateBase, IXmlPicklable, IEnableLogger { ulong _SizeInBytes; public override ulong SizeInBytes { get { return _SizeInBytes; } set { } } } </code></pre>

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