Hello,

I am planning to write a webservice that will be used with a Silverlight client for a FoxPro database.
For another project I wrote the webservice in VFP, but to make it easier to deploy I like to write the service in .NET as a WCF service and use a VFP Com dll to do the connection to the VFP database.

I realized when calling the VFP com in C#, I don't know the type of the return values.

When testing this out, the actual code looks like this:

webservice.Service1 oService = new webservice.Service1();
string lcTime = oService.GetTime().ToString();

The strange thing is that the compiler expects the return value of oService.GetTime() as object. I suppose this is because it does not know the actual return type and assumes an object therefor.

If I would have to treat all values as string this would add a lot of overhead to the conversion, especially when I need to work with Date fields or amounts etc.

Is there something I can do about this to make that easier?