Exposing other classes (as well as the EF Model) from a WCF Service?

Question

Hello,
I have been following some of the tutorials on the Oracle.Net development centre, such as creating a Data Service for the Entity framework:-
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/db/dotnet/EntityFrameworkWCF/WCFEntityFramework.htm
This is good - However, I have written a number of extra classes as part of my model i.e. buddy classes for data annotations/meta data (for strongly typed views) and various extra classes that contain LINQ statements looking at the EF Entity classes.
Can anyone explain how I go about moving all my classes to the WCF data service, such as above ?
I tried to alter the *.svc file (as created in above example like) to include more than one entity, but it's not keen:-
E.g.
public class TasService : DataService < TasEntities >  *: DataService < OrganisationService>* //<-- this bit doesn't work
      public static void InitializeService(DataServiceConfiguration config)
            config.SetEntitySetAccessRule("*", EntitySetRights.All);
            config.DataServiceBehavior.MaxProtocolVersion = DataServiceProtocolVersion.V2;
}I can find other example of creating a WCF library and hosting out services with I.P addresses stored in an App.config file, but the above example only stored a web.config file.
Thus, I have tried created a WCF Data Service and WCF Library, but still cannot successfully expose all my model classes + Entity Framework Model.
Does anyone have a solid example OR has anyone managed to achieve this task ? Someone must be in the know... please don't hold out on us mere mortals ......
Thanks,
Graeme
Edited by: user4487499 on 21-Apr-2011 03:24
Edited by: user4487499 on 21-Apr-2011 03:25

Answer 1

Do you have any mapping done on the response message from the WCF service . ?
If so Better to copy the suspended message coming from the WCF service and validate against the custom response Schema you have created.
Note : You can try running fiddler tool to check the response from from the web service incase of failure.
Also try logging the message in the event viewer or any debug tool.
Thanks
Abhishek