WCF Tutorial

Part 7 KnownType attribute in WCF

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If we have classes related by inheritance, the wcf service generally accepts and returns the base type. If you expect the service to accept and return inherited types, then use KnownType attribute.

There are other ways of associating known types, which we will discuss in next video session.