DataMember not coming into CollectionDataContract class – WCF

While working with WCF CollectionDataContract class, I have found very weird problem. we don’t have a way to add DataMember property into CollectionDataContract class.

Here is link about actual issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/471364/can-i-add-a-datamember-to-a-collectiondatacontract-in-wcf

Though I have found some links which talks about alternate way to populate/add data members into CollectionDataContract class.

http://borismod.blogspot.com/2009/06/v2-wcf-collectiondatacontract-and.html

http://borismod.blogspot.com/2009/04/wcf-collectiondatacontract-and.html