Why does my WCF service return and ARRAY instead of a List ?

Question

In the web servce I say

 public List GetCustomers()
    {
        PR1Entities dc = new PR1Entities();
        var q = (from x in dc.Customers         


        

Answer 1

Right click on your service reference --> Configure Service Reference --> Under "Data Type" change "Collection Type" to System.Collections.ArrayList or whatever type you want the array to deserialize as.

Your list is serialized into an array (server side). You choose how to deserialize it (client side).