Help with deriving DataContract from Plain Old Xml Service

duncanmhor

Hi all, having a bit of trouble with setting up a WCF client to consume a POX service (Truvevo video) The service returns an XML doc like this:

<Response>
<VideoSet>
<totalResultsAvailable>
integer value
</totalResultsAvailable>
<totalResultsReturned>
integer value
</totalResultsReturned>
<firstResultPosition>
integer value
</firstResultPosition>
<Video>
Nested XML elements
</Video>
<Video>
Nested XML elements
</Video>
<Video>
Nested XML elements
</Video>
<VideoSet>
</Response>

In order to consume this service, I set up a WCF client that has this

[DataContract(Namespace = "http://xml.searchvideo.com")]
public class Response
{
///
/// Within the response we find the VideoSet tag, which
/// contains an array of Videos.

    //\[DataMember(Name = "VideoSet")\]
    //public Video\[\] TheVideoSet;

    \[DataMember(Name = "VideoSet")\]
    public VideoSet TheVideoSet;
}

[DataContract(Namespace = "http://xml.searchvideo.com")]
public class VideoSet
{
[DataMember(Name = "totalResultsAvailable")]
public int TotalResultsAvailable;

    \[DataMember(Name="totalResultsReturned")\]
    public int TotalResultsReturned;

    \[DataMember(Name="firstResultPosition")\]
    public int FirstResultPositon;

    \[DataMember(Name="Video")\]
    public Video\[\] TheVideos   

}

If I run this code, I have values assigned for the three integer types, but the array is null. If I change the code in the Response class and simply add the Videoset DataMember attribute directly to the array of Video objects (these work), the array is populated, but obviously I don't get the results info. Anyone have any ideas?

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