>>Ok, so I tried this message in the 'Web Services' category, and go no responses at all. I'm hoping that's because nobody follows that category. This seems to the category where most problems are sorted out, so I figured I'd try it here. Following is the message I posted in the Web Service section. I'm hoping somebody can help me out here.
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>Just a WAG, but is it because you're actually returning a DataSet from the method instead of dsDept? ex.
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>public dsDept GetDeptById(short id)

Good thought, but I just tried it out and the result is unchanged. I still get back the schema without any data.

Next I tried changing the calling program at the same time by taking out the line

DataSet departmentDS = new DataSet();

at the top of the class and moving it down into the button click event as:

catsnjazz.dsDept departmentDS = new catsnjazz.dsDept();

before the call to GetDepartmentByID.

Still the same result. Clearly I'm messing up somewhere, but I'm baffled.