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  Rawler

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  Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 14, 2013 07:46 PM|LINK

  Hey all!

  I have this Web Service that recieves like 20 parameters, two of them are Decimal. 

  When I run the ws at visual studio at those 2 decimal parameters I write "150.56" and "3580.88" and all goes good. But when I test the ws with the WCF Test Client, those values becomes from "150.56" to "15056" and "3580.88" to "358088". I read it could be the culture, but I don't know how to solve this.

  Thanks to all!

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  Rion William...

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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 14, 2013 07:51 PM|LINK

  Your precision value is likely set too high. When precision is greater than 28 for decimals, then by default an XML data-type is used to store the value.

  //Using precision > 28
  150.56 => 15056
  
  //Using precision <= 28
  150.56 => 150.56

  You can find a large discussion of the issue here.

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  • Edited by Rion Williams on Jan 14, 2013 07:53 PM
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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 14, 2013 08:26 PM|LINK

  Those fields are set Decimal(16, 2) and Decimal(8, 4).

  And it does work at vs2010 environment, but at WCF Test Client is when all is messed up.

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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 14, 2013 08:46 PM|LINK

  The following Stack Overflow thread discusses a similar issue that relates to the culture / regional settings (as you had mentioned before).

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2052692/culture-related-issue-with-wcf-and-system-double

  One of the user's explicitly defined the "." as the seperator for numbers and was able to test his WCF services successfully, so it may be worth a shot. (Unless the Test Client by default reads in all data-types as XML)

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  • Edited by Rion Williams on Jan 14, 2013 08:48 PM
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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 15, 2013 12:53 PM|LINK

  Thanks for the link, I will try changing the separator for numbers, but still if another user wants to use it, should change the configuration aswell?

  There should be a .net fix for this, I mean I can't tell every user to change their configuration each time they need to use my WS.

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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 15, 2013 01:06 PM|LINK

  As you mentioned this only appeared to be a problem within the Test Client and not the actual implementation right? (If it is just an issue with the test client - then you should be alright if I understand you correctly.)

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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 15, 2013 01:34 PM|LINK

  I just tested the web service from the browser and it worked. This web service is being invoked from a desktop application, I will check for the configured number separator. So there should be a config file at WCF Test Client to change or configure this?

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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 15, 2013 01:39 PM|LINK

  The following Stack Overflow thread discusses the process for disabling autogenerating a configuration file for the WCF Test Client so that you could edit and re-use the same one for all of your subsequent requests : 

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5271117/wcftestclient-default-config

  Here's another long discussion on the same topic in the MSDN forums as well.

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  • Edited by Rion Williams on Jan 15, 2013 01:40 PM
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  Re: Decimal value ignored at WCF Test Client but Local

  Jan 17, 2013 01:24 AM|LINK

  Thanks for the links, I'll check them at work.

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