WCF chokes on properties with no “set ”. Any workaround?

Question

I have some class that I\'m passing as a result of a service method, and that class has a get-only property:

[DataContract]
public class ErrorBase
{
  [DataM         


        

Answer 1

Give Message a public getter but protected setter, so that only subclasses (and the DataContractSerializer, because it cheats :) may modify the value.