>>What happens of a connection to the DB cannot be established? What gets returned to the client?
>
>An error message? <g>

Ya think? <vbg>


>Seriously, all our web service methods have a "ref string Message" parameter that will contain any error messages that the server-side stuff may have encountered.

That was the reason I thought of returning an object. An object would contain any amount of data. But I can
see how it would be cumbersome to return an object.

Thanks.