Hi

I have some services at the moment that return a dto with the following fields:

[DataMember]
public int Id { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }

and I want to add more to this service by adding the following properties:

[DataMember]
public virtual DateTime StartDate { get; set; }

I'm not in a position where i can update the consumers of these services though - the client does that themselves.

My question is - will the old clients be able to just skip these new properties? and the new ones take advantage of them or will the serialization be an issue with the new properties?

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