title: Set the Default Value for a property in an ADO .NET Data Service
body: <p>I have an Entity Data Model being read by an ADO .NET Data Service. 
  The entity in question looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>**PaidAmount**
  Id
  FY_1993
  FY_1994
  ...
  FY_2030
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is it possible to set a default value so that values of 0 aren't serialized?
  I have tried setting FY_1993's Default Value to both 0.00 and 0 but when I view the Entity in the .svc the properties still come though as <code>&lt;d:FY_1993 m:type="Edm.Decimal"&gt;0.00&lt;/d:FY_1993&gt;</code> 
  Any Ideas?</p>