Is Anything Holding you back?

[Jan Johansson via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 14:28:42 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 16:40:06 UTC, Jan Johansson wrote:
>> Yes, I know WCF more than well, doing my own bindings, 
>> federated security bindings, you name it. I also know that WCF 
>> works with attribute values during runtime, through 
>> reflections and extract aspect oriented instructions on how to 
>> treat types. It would be slick to do the same in D.
>
> Yes, but that's only because C# doesn't support DbI, it also 
> doesn't mean WCF accepts arbitrary types in contracts: 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7444851/why-knowntypeattribute-need-in-wcf

I know about that too, the KnownType is applied to types that the 
DataContractSerializer (not the XmlSerializer) must be aware of 
before it can serialize the type (you enlist the type to the 
serializer). Thanks.