What are these extra parameters in my ASMX Proxy Methods?

Question

If I add a web reference from a .NET 1.1 client to a WCF service, the proxy methods generated at the client contain an extra parameter ending with the suffix \'Specified\' f

Answer 1

The issue is with parameters of a value type when they are permitted to be absent. .NET 1.1 has no way to specify this without the *specified parameters. They need to be set to true to indicate that the corresponding parameter is being sent.