Recently, I encountered a strange problem with a simple WCF NetMsmqIntegrationBinding service. The data objects passed into my service contained no data! When a message was received, the service would create an instance of the appropriate DataContract class but then would not populate the just-constructed object with the data contained in the WCF message (i.e. the data object’s fields were all left at their default values—null, 0, empty string, etc.). Continue reading →