topic Re: Failed to deserialize the object in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

Failed to deserialize the object

Anonymous User — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:52:47 GMT

Original User: arcpatrol

My problem is this, I'm using 2.0 for wpf api, I have published a web service, when I try to load in the component map, I get the following error:
Failed to deserialize the object of type ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Services.MapServiceInfo. Found an unexpected character '<'.

Re: Failed to deserialize the object

Anonymous User — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:16:04 GMT

Original User: SharpGIS

What does the JSON response from your service look like?
Ie add ?f=pjson to the url endpoint and display it in the browser.

Re: Failed to deserialize the object

Anonymous User — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:06:05 GMT

Original User: arcpatrol

First of all, thanks for replying, when I put that entry in my browser(? F = pjson)
(just after the web service address), gives me the option to save an XML
file, this is the content of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ServiceExceptionReport SYSTEM "http://schemas.opengis.net/wms/1.1.1/exception_1_1_1.dtd">
<ServiceExceptionReport version="1.1.1">
<ServiceException code="InvalidFormat">
Can't parse XML request.
</ServiceException>
</ServiceExceptionReport>