Shared data object between WCF service and Silverlight app

Question

I have a custom data entity (data object) that is exposed via a WCF webservice. The WCF service lives in a web application. I then have a Silverlight application with a service reference to that WCF service. When i add the service reference a proxy is generated, and that includes a version of the custom data entity.

How should i structure my code so that the data entity is declared in one place, and shared amongst the project containing the WCF service and any Silverlight applications that reference it? I want to eliminate the version of the data entity that is generated with the proxy.

Answer 1

There is a good example of how to do this here by Pete Brown. Using that approach you can use the same classes in both the Silverlight client and in the WCF service without having to use the generated objects.