>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>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.
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>Potatoe (s).
>Anyway I did say in my original post "If you know the Client is a .NET client"
>
>IAC if you are dealing with a scenario where the recipient is *not* a .NET client then I would seriously question whether a XML representation of a dataset is a particularly user-friendly piece of XML to deal with in the first place....
>Best,
>Viv

Agreed.