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I've had a lot of traffic to a post from a while back on " Make Your Web Service Proxies Return List<T> Using RegEx (And The Regulator) ". In the post, I was converting the arrays that were being generated by the web client proxy into List<T> (Or List(Of T) if you speak VB) and I was using RegEx to do. It was a bit tricky because I had to ignore the object[] arrays that were being used internally in the proxy class and it was a bit kludgy because it had to be run by hand...
[Update: with Visual Studio 2008 there is now a setting in the IDE to do this. Check out this post for more] I posted a solution a little while ago to have an existing .net Web Service client proxy return a List (or similar) using a RegEx replacement. In the post I got a comment pointing me at a post by Steve Eichert on using the svcutil command-line option tool to do this in WCF. From the post, there is a "/rct" switch which allows you to specify the collection type to be used. The svcutil...
[Update: With Visual Studio 2008 there is now a setting in the IDE to do this. Check out From WCF Services" href="http://hilton.giesenow.com/archive/2008/05/21/using-generic-list-lt-t-gt-from-wcf-services.aspx" mce_href="http://hilton.giesenow.com/archive/2008/05/21/using-generic-list-lt-t-gt-from-wcf-services.aspx"> this post for more] We're working on a project at the moment that requires us to interact with a very rich third party Web Services layer that returns...