Do WCF Services Expose Properties?

Question

In the interface required to implement a WCF service, I declare the main class with the [ServiceContract()] attribute and any exposed method with [OperationContract()].

How can i expose public properties? Thanks

Answer 1

Since the get portion of a property is a method, this will technically work but, as mentioned in previous answers/comments, this may not be advisable; just posting it here for general knowledge.

Service Contract:

[ServiceContract]
public interface IService1
{
    string Name
    {
        [OperationContract]
        get;
    }
}

Service:

public class Service1 : IService1
{
    public string Name
    {
        get { return "Steve"; }
    }
}

To access from your client code:

var client = new Service1Client();
var name = client.get_Name();

Answer 2

You can't. That's not how it works. Methods only.