Using an enum type with WCF services

Posted by on February 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

I recently started to work with Windows Communication Foundation and one of the first problems I did run into was how to use enum type in WCF.

This is a small example of a data contract and a service contract/interface that makes use of the enum type.

using System;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
 
namespace Test.DataContracts
{
    [DataContract(Namespace = "Testing", Name = "JobResult")]
    public enum JobResult
    {
        [EnumMember]
        Passed = 0,
        [EnumMember]
        Failed = 1,
        [EnumMember]
        Running = 2,
        [EnumMember]
        TestFailure = 3,
        [EnumMember]
        Queued = 4,
        [EnumMember]
        JobNotFound = 5
    }
}

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