Return html format on wcf service instead of json or xml

Question

I have the operation contract:

[System.ServiceModel.Web.WebGet( UriTemplate = "c" , BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare )] [OperationContract] string Connect ( );

and I have it implemented as:

 public string Connect ( ) { return "<a href='someLingk' >Some link</a>"; }

when I go to that link I get: enter image description here

how can I format the response as html? or even plain text. I don't want to get back html nor json...

I know I can create a website that queries the service but I just want to create a simple "Console like" application that works on any browser...

sroes · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-12 16:37:54Z

Returning a stream allows you to return a raw string:

[System.ServiceModel.Web.WebGet( UriTemplate = "c" , BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare )] [OperationContract] public System.IO.Stream Connect() { string result = "<a href='someLingk' >Some link</a>"; byte[] resultBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(result); WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse.ContentType = "text/html"; return new MemoryStream(resultBytes); }

I find that for long HTML files some of the content is duplicated in the output.

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