Why method overloading is not allowed in WCF?

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In a nutshell, the reason you cannot overload methods has to do with the fact that WSDL does not support the same overloading concepts present inside of C#. The following post provides details on why this is not possible.

http://jeffbarnes.net/blog/post/2006/09/21/Overloading-Methods-in-WCF.aspx

To work around the issue, you can explicitly specify the Name property of the OperationContract.

[ServiceContract]
public interface MyService
{
    [OperationContract(Name="SumUsingInt")]
    int Sum(int x, int y);

    [OperationContract(Name="SumUsingDouble")]
    int Sum(double x, double y);
}

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