WCF. IList is deserialized as array. How to make it be any writable list (ArrayList)?

Ultimately your contract contains no information that would make it choose any particular implementation. The best way to fix this would be; to make result well-typed, perhaps as ArrayList.

If nothing else then I would write an extension class to extend ThirdPartyResult.

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