When I try to consume a WCF service which expose operations that return standard EF objects I receive a warning on these operations. The warning states "This operation is not supported in the WCF Test Client because it uses type < EntityName >". The generated source code for the entities in my EF model contains ordinary C# classes, inherited from EntityObject and decorated with [EdmEntityType],[Serializable] and [DataContract] attribute.
If I change the standard code generation process and instead produce Self Tracking Entities (STE) I receive classes which are also decorated with the DataContract attribute but they don't inherit from EntityObject anymore. WCF Operations that return STE objects ARE supported by the WCFTestClient.
What is it in EntityObject that prevent WCFTestClient from calling / displaying these operations?
EntityObject is also decorated with [Serializable] and [DataContract].
I know there are other tools besides WCFTestClient that I could use and I have already coded my own testclient but I'm curious of why it behaves like this.
