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I have created restful service with ItemTrackingDetailsRequest as input for GetItemTrackingDetails.

VB
<ServiceContract()> _
Public Interface IItemTrackerService
    <OperationContract()> _
    <WebInvoke(Method:="POST", RequestFormat:=WebMessageFormat.Xml, ResponseFormat:=WebMessageFormat.Xml, BodyStyle:=WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare, UriTemplate:="GetItemTrackingDetails")> _
    Function GetItemTrackingDetails(ByVal rData As ItemTrackingDetailsRequest) As ItemTrackingDetailsResponse
End Interface
<DataContract(Namespace:="http://test.com/ns")> _
Public Class ItemTrackingDetailsRequest
    Public ItemTrackingNumbers As New ItemTrackingNumbers()
End Class
<DataContract()> _
Public Class ItemTrackingNumbers
'If I declare TrackingNumber as normal string, it will not throw bad request. But the purpose of reading the Tracking Numbers is not served. 
    <DataMember()> _
    Public TrackingNumber() As String
End ClassThe input xml is as follows

XML
<ItemTrackingDetailsRequest xmlns="http://test.com/ns">
  <ItemTrackingNumbers>
    <TrackingNumber>A10001</TrackingNumber>
    <TrackingNumber>A10002</TrackingNumber>
  </ItemTrackingNumbers>
</ItemTrackingDetailsRequest>

How can I read the all the TrackingNumbers to an array from ItemTrackingDetailsRequest class object in the method GetItemTrackingDetails. When I change the TrackingNumber in class from string to string array, it throws bad request from client. Just I want to read all the TrackingNumbers from the xml in to the ItemTrackingDetailsRequest object like this.
VB
Public Function GetItemTrackingDetails(ByVal request As ItemTrackingDetailsRequest) As ItemTrackingDetailsResponse Implements IItemTrackerService.GetItemTrackingDetails
    'Calling like request.ItemTrackingNumbers.TrackingNumber(0).ToString() is not working and throwing Bad Request from Client    
Dim strTrackingNumber1 = request.ItemTrackingNumbers.TrackingNumber(0).ToString()
Dim strTrackingNumber2 = request.ItemTrackingNumbers.TrackingNumber(1).ToString()
End Function

The below is the client calling code
VB
Const url As String = "http://localhost:8003/ItemTracker/ItemTrackerService.svc/GetItemTrackingDetails"
req = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)
req.Method = "POST"
req.ContentType = "application/xml; charset=utf-8"
req.Timeout = 300000
req.KeepAlive = False
req.Headers.Add("SOAPAction", url)
Dim xmlDoc = New XmlDocument With {.XmlResolver = Nothing}
xmlDoc.Load(Server.MapPath("ItemTrackingDetailsReq.xml"))
Dim sXml As String = xmlDoc.InnerXml
req.ContentLength = sXml.Length
Dim sw = New StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream())
sw.Write(sXml)
sw.Close()
res = DirectCast(req.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim responseStream As Stream = res.GetResponseStream()
Dim streamReader = New StreamReader(responseStream)
'Read the response into an xml document
Dim soapResonseXmlDocument = New XmlDocument()
soapResonseXmlDocument.LoadXml(streamReader.ReadToEnd())
soapResonseXmlDocument.Save(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & "ItemTrackingDetailsRes.xml")
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Updated 8-Jun-12 15:10pm
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