Datacontract exception. Cannot be serialized

Question

I have the following WCF DataContract:

[DataContract]
public class Occupant
{
    private string _Name;
    private string _Email;
    private string _Organi         


        

Answer 1

You need a default parameterless constructor. I don't ever plan to actually use mine, so I added a summary for IntelliSense and throw a run-time exception to keep it from being used.

/// 

/// parameterless default constructor only for serialization
/// 
public MyClass() { throw new NotImplementedException("parameterless default constructor only for serialization"); }