WCF Service Opertation : Unable to return collection of type Enumerbale<string>

WCF Service Opertation : Unable to return collection of type Enumerbale<string> by c_roots

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Type:	Bug
ID:	767210
Opened:	10/12/2012 9:33:39 AM
Access Restriction:	Public

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Experiencing the same issue as reported here

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataservices/thread/fff6ab98-7308-4b68-b1f3-6d69dc95c940

when trying to access results from a service operation,
[WebGet]
        public IEnumerable<string> GetSuppliersForCommonReference(int commonReference)
        {
            ......
         }

when unit testing recieve exception with message,

Exception message,
An XML node of type 'Element' was found in a string value. An element with a string value can only contain Text, CDATA, SignificantWhitespace, Whitespace or Comment nodes.

tried creating testmethod in web service as per example here,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh230677.aspx

same result occurs

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.NET Framework 4.5

Build service host
Build domain server project
Run relavent unit tests

run unit test with

string results = _persistenceSession.GetSuppliersForCommonReference.ExecuteEnumerable()

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Windows 7

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Test method

Davies.Complaints.Test.UnitTests.ComplaintDomainClientUnitTest.DClient_GetSuppliersForCommonRef threw exception: System.InvalidOperationException: An XML node of type 'Element' was found in a string value. An element with a string value can only contain Text, CDATA, SignificantWhitespace, Whitespace or Comment nodes. ---> Microsoft.Data.OData.ODataException: An XML node of type 'Element' was found in a string value. An element with a string value can only contain Text, CDATA, SignificantWhitespace, Whitespace or Comment nodes.

return of list <sting> with count = 2
containing data from service from
as per,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<GetSuppliersForCommonReference xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"><element>ChemDry UK Limited</element><element>Eastwell Contractor Management</element></GetSuppliersForCommonReference>

File Name	Submitted By	Submitted On	File Size
TestProject.zip	eXplowar	3/11/2013	13.25 MB

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