If you define your class (or a wrapper class for your VCX) in a PRG, you can specify a return type for each method. If that doesn't help, take a look at this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/calvin_hsia/archive/2005/09/02/strongly-typed-methods-and-properties.aspx

>Hello,
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>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.
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>I realized when calling the VFP com in C#, I don't know the type of the return values.
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>When testing this out, the actual code looks like this:
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>webservice.Service1 oService = new webservice.Service1();
>string lcTime = oService.GetTime().ToString();
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>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.
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>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.
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>Is there something I can do about this to make that easier?