Using LINQ to SQL as data contract for WCF/ Web Service
LINQ to SQL greatly enhance our coding productivity but when it comes to serialization of the object (means using LINQ to SQL Object as data contract) for used in WCF as data contracts, its a headache as it does not really support binary or XML serialization out of the box.
The immediate solution is to create your own data contract and copy the data from your LINQ to SQL object to properties in the data contract. This approach is good as a quick fix but it is counter productive of retyping everything. On the mean time I think there us overhead of doing so as well.
So the solution is write a native helper class to take care of the serialization using reflection (I bet you will complain there is overhead using reflection as well!) but it up to you as I found somewhere in Code Project the solution to do this is published.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/linqsqlserialization.aspx
