I haven't found any definitive answer to what is "actually" happening under the hood. From what I can tell, XML is what is getting passed. The structure of the DataSet object was centered around XML.
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>You can work with the DataSet objects as XML documents.
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>So is that what happens? Even if it looks like I am passing a dataset object, in reality, xml is what actually gets passed??
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Cathi Gero, CPA
Prenia Software & Consulting Services
Microsoft C# / .NET MVP
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