data service natural support for enums

Question

hello

i building a data service 
and the class i return contains enum
i found that data service does not have a natural support for enum
i found a work around for the problem here
http://weblogs.asp.net/sergeyzwezdin/archive/2009/11/29/use-of-enum-type-in-ado-net-data-services.aspx

is this the only way to do it ?
is there a natural way to do it?

thanks in advance
Shlomi

Answer 1

Currently WCF Data Services doesn't support enum properties. The blog post you mentioned is a one possible workaround (only works for reflection provider though). You can vote for this feature for the next release here: http://data.uservoice.com/forums/72027-wcf-data-services-feature-suggestions

Thanks,

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Vitek Karas [MSFT]