Been doing a little WCF today... I augmented a partial message class on a client with some additional properties, including this:


Now I assumed by default the any messages would have PartOfResults set to true... just like it used to work with ye olde XmlSerializer ;o)

But actually no ... WCF doesn't invoke the constructor - surprised I hadn't noticed until now - particularly annoying is of course my unit tests were passing because I was calling the default constructor on the message... so first of all I decided to cheat and just implement the method like this:

But I didn't like the implications ;o) so I went and actually looked up how to make it work properly:


Pretty boring ;o) just surprised me because I haven't done much WCF since it went final.