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POarray passed as parameter to a WCF service to be filled up comes back full of null's
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copied!<p>I'm trying to write a WCF pipe service. One of my service's methods will receive an <code>object[]</code> as a parameter and fill it up, emulating <code>IDataReader</code>'s <code>GetValues</code> method. But whenever I call this method from my client I get a full of <code>null</code> values array. I also tried changing the <code>object[]</code> parameter to <code>ref object[]</code> but nothing changes.</p> <p>I've been doing some tests after first writing this question and this is weirder than I first though. The hole problem seems to occur in the client's side. Here is some code (all taken from client side):</p> <pre><code>object[] values = new object[reader.FieldCount]; // values is filled up with null's reader.GetValues(values); // values is again filled up with null's (see code bellow) </code></pre> <p>This is <code>GetValues</code>, called by the code above:</p> <pre><code>public int GetValues(object[] values) { // values is filled out with null's, naturally return DatabaseProxy.Instance.GetValues(_ConnectionId, _ReaderId, ref values); // values has content here! (values[0] == "hello this is a string") } </code></pre> <p>The <code>GetValues</code> method in <code>DatabaseProxy.Instance</code> is my server's method, which takes a <code>ref</code> parameter because otherwise it would return an array full of <code>null</code>s. By using the <code>ref</code> modifier, now it does return values, but then these values disappear inside my client. Any idea what's going on here?</p>

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