How to introduce custom primitive key types to WCF Data Services (Astoria)

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Published on 2010-04-07T10:57:10Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 11:48 UTC
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Hello. We use custom type to represent Identifiers in our project. It has TypeConvertor attached and it always helped with serialization.

I've tried to use WCF Data Services to expose some data from our system, but faced a problem. Astoria framework do not recognize class as an entity even though I've decorated it with [DataServiceKey("Id")] attribute. If I change type of property to Guid - it totally works :(.

How could teach WCF Data Services to understand this simple class?

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