Silverlight: Webservice method returning ObservableCollection instead of Generic List

Question

I have a webservice that calls a method that returns a generic list of class BodyPartUrls like so:

public List<BodyPartUrls> getCharacterClassBody(int characterClassID)
{
    var bpulst = new List<BodyPartUrls>();
    var iqcb = ydc.ClassBodies.Where(cb =>  cb.characterClassID == characterClassID);

    foreach (var icb in iqcb)
    {
        var bpu = new BodyPartUrls();
        bpu.bodyPartName = icb.BodyPart.bodyPartName;
        bpu.bodyName = icb.Body.bodyName;
        bpu.puppetID = characterClassID;
        bpulst.Add(bpu);
    }
    return bpulst;
}

BodyPartUrls only consists of string and integer properties, note that ydc is refering to a datacontext. This the code in the webservice :

    [WebMethod]
    public List<BodyPartUrls> getCharacterClassBody(int characterClassID)
    {
       return b.getCharacterClassBody(characterClassID);
    }

Now to call the method in silverlight I utalised the following code :

public void initialiseBodiesSoapClientClient()
{
    string webServiceUrl = pu.GetUrlForResource("Bodies.asmx");
    System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding binding = new System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding();
    EndpointAddress endpoint = new EndpointAddress(webServiceUrl);
    bsc = new BodiesRef.BodiesSoapClient(binding, endpoint);
    bsc.getCharacterClassBodyCompleted += new EventHandler<Yambushi.BodiesRef.getCharacterClassBodyCompletedEventArgs>(bsc_getCharacterClassBodyCompleted);
}

The method pu.GetUrlForResource get's the url of where the webservice is hosted, the following is method bsc_getCharacterClassBodyCompleted :

void bsc_getCharacterClassBodyCompleted(object sender, Yambushi.BodiesRef.getCharacterClassBodyCompletedEventArgs e)
{
   bpulist = e.Result;
}

bpulist is a generic list of BodyPartUrls, for some reason e.Result is returning ObservableCollection instead of the generic list. I have similar code to retreive other generic lists that work fine so I really can't understand why this is acting differently.

Answer 1

Click Configure Service Reference. Under the Data Type section you can select what type you want collections or dictionaries to return as.