WCF Web Service error: “Service endpoint binding not using HTTP protocol”?

Question

I\'ve got a simple WCF service that has worked fine while I\'ve been testing on my dev machine.

Now I\'ve moved the web service to a web server, and I\'m running the

Answer 1

Late answer to the party, but I got the same error.

Turns out, you cannot use abstract classes for data contract members. I had to use the following:

[DataContract]
public class MyClass {
    [DataMember]
    public A MyProperty { get; set; }
}

[DataContract]
[KnownType(typeof(B))]
[KnownType(typeof(C))]
public class A {

}

[DataContract]
public class B : A {

}

[DataContract]
public class C : A {

}

In order to allow WCF to serialize something like

var myClass = new MyClass();
myClass.MyProperty = new B();