>>I'm doing an app which is initially a C# WinForms app where the users will connect via VPN.
>>At some point in the future it will be converted to a web app, so I want to use a WS up front.
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>>I'm fairly new at this, and I've seen some examples, as well as prior postings with you and Bonnie
>>that got me going this way.
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>>I didn't think you could pass a dataset through a WS into the back end.
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>Potato, Potatoh. Personally, I would convert it to XML and back again because you never know who or what will use your WS. Michels approach seems to be a good one also.

I do like the XML approach for that very reason. By using XML, any XML-Compliant request could get data. And I also
like Michel's idea.