Are Datacontracts only used for database or any reason is there?

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DataContracts are only used for Database or is there any major usages?
please tell me how those are used in real time?

Posted 30-Sep-13 0:25am

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Fredrik Bornander · Answer 1 · 2013-09-30T01:09:00

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DataContracts are formal agreements between a service and a client[^], they are used to de-couple types from contracts.

They have nothing to do with databases, they are a way of describing what parts of a type can be serialized.

Hope this helps,
Fredrik

Posted 30-Sep-13 1:09am

Fredrik Bornander