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  1. POHow to specify a sequence of elements instead of an array of elements in a .NET WCF Web Service?
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    copied!<p>I have a .NET 4 WCF web service which takes a data contract with an optional enumerable of strings. For example:</p> <p>Service Code:</p> <pre><code>[DataMember(IsRequired = true)] public string Something { get { return _Something; } set { _Something= value; } } private string _Something; [DataMember(IsRequired = false)] public string[] MoreThings { get { return _MoreThings.ToArray&lt;string&gt;(); } set { _MoreThings = new List&lt;string&gt;(value); } } private List&lt;string&gt; _MoreThings = new List&lt;string&gt;(); </code></pre> <p>WSDL:</p> <pre><code> &lt;xsd:complexType name="MyDataContract"&gt; &lt;xsd:sequence&gt; &lt;xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="Something" type="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="MoreThings" nillable="true" type="q1:ArrayOfstring" xmlns:q1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays" /&gt; &lt;/xsd:sequence&gt; &lt;/xsd:complexType&gt; </code></pre> <p>I'm trying to interface with the service from a number of different platforms, but one is Perl using SOAP::WSDL (and wsdl2perl.pl in particular), which seems to be failing on recognizing "ArrayOfstring". Is there anything I can do in my code so that the WSDL would read like this:</p> <pre><code> &lt;xsd:complexType name="MyDataContract"&gt; &lt;xsd:sequence&gt; &lt;xsd:element minOccurs="1" name="Something" type="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;xsd:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded" name="MoreThings" nillable="true" type="xsd:string" /&gt; &lt;/xsd:sequence&gt; &lt;/xsd:complexType&gt; </code></pre> <p>I'm open to other suggestions, as well. Basically, I'm trying to do something similar to declaring a method MyOperation(string something, params string[] moreThings), where any number of additional moreThings parameters may be passed, but in a way that doesn't cause interop issues with non-.NET platforms.</p>
 

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