>I have built a webservice wrapper in C# for VFP to eat. Works great. All my exposed methods are receiving and returning to and from VFP as expected - except arrays
>
>I think I need a refresher on the nuances of passing arrays in and out. Because of lack of strong typing, I assume the .NET incoming param must be object[] or object[,]
>
>I am currently trying to pass in a vfp @arrparam where arrparam is dime arrayparam[4] of strings. I would like to get back ids[4,2] with strings and integers.
>
>I could also pass in a 2 dime array by reference if I could figure out how to pass it back.
>
>If my object is lows, besides
>
>comarray(lows,0) to get the array to pass in 0 based what are the other tricks I should know about this?
>
>The method works fine in my .NET test harness
>
>

>    public object[,] FindIdsByEmails(object[] emailarray)
>        {
>            int emailslen = emailarray.Length;
>            object[,] returnarray = new object[emailslen, 2];
>            for (int i = 0; i < emailslen; i++)
>            {
>                string email = (string)emailarray[i];
>                long? id = this.FindIdByEmail(email);
>                returnarray[i, 0] = email;
>                if (id != null)
>                {
>                    returnarray[i, 1] = id;
>                }
>                else
>                {
>                    returnarray[i, 1] = 00000;
>                }
>            }
>            return returnarray;
>        }
>

>
>But this VFP test prg gets me an error that "Function argument value, type or count is invalid."
>
>

>CD "c:\users\pagan\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\glwebservice\glwebservice\bin\debug"
>ACTIVATE WINDOW watch
>lows = CREATEOBJECT("glwebservice.glclient")
>lows.login("xxxxxx@xxxxx.org", "password", "<security key")
>
>DIMENSION foo(4)
>
>foo(1)="dan@primarydatasolutions.com"
>foo(2)="charleshankey@f1tech.com"
>foo(3) = "raferris@hsonline.net"
>foo(4) = "foo@foo.net"
>DIMENSION ids(4,2)
>
>comarray(lows,0)
>
>* here's where I get the error
>
>ids = lows.FindIdsByEmails(@foo)  
>
>lows.logout
>lows = null
>
>RETURN
>
>
>

>
>Suggestions, hints, pointing to docs all appreciated.


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