[Mono-dev] WCF: Contracts with Interface hierarchy

2010-12-18 Thread Karsten Fourmont
quick update: Explicitly specifying the Action and ReplyAction Attribute makes it work. That's an OK workaround at least for me: [OperationContract(Action = Foo, ReplyAction = FooReplay)] void Foo(); Bug's also posted with ID 658520 by Maciej KopaƄsk Cheers, Karsten Karsten Fourmont

[Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization

2010-12-18 Thread Karsten Fourmont
Hi, while trying to access a Mono WCF service with a MS.NET client I encountered issues with DateTime (de)serialization: it seems mono serializes only the ticks and not the DateTimeKind info (UTC, Local, Unspecified). See bug 660424 for description and proposed fixed. (I posted it as WCF bug

[Mono-dev] How can I build a minimal mono runtime system?

2010-12-18 Thread CodeSlinger
Sorry for cross posting but I think I should have posted this in the dev forum in the first place. I'm a .NET Windows guy and not a guru on Linux but with Justin Malcom's help I have the latest 2.8.1 mono installed on an older RHEL45 dev system and it seems to be working quite well and is quite

Re: [Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization

2010-12-18 Thread CodeSlinger
Just a thought - if using WCF, the client and server could be in different zones so why would you want anything other than UTC time to be passed around in the first place which is always what should be stored and only converted when displayed using the local conventions. The zone is not part of

Re: [Mono-dev] DateTime Serialization

2010-12-18 Thread Atsushi Eno
Well, date and time information can sure be locale independent, but NET's DateTime values aren't. It also contains DateTimeKind flag and ToBinary() adds that information within the 64 bit return value in addition to UTC time ticks. So, Karsten is right and that is indeed a good point. I'll