Bonnie...

Thanks...I just wanted to make sure I was being clear. I'm glad to hear someone else is doing the same general thing we are.

The other person is coming from a COM environment, and believes that data should not be brought down from the middle-tier to the client end, period. He believes that grids, picklists, etc. should be 'read' from the middle-tier, without actually pulling down the data. This doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I pointed out that while there is obviously a brief hit when someone does a query (out app involves a great deal of data retrieval and data review), it's much better than assoicating a grid with a data source that's behind the web service. I also mentioned that if someone is editing a row, and then the connection to the web service dies, the changes may be lost. However, if the user is doing a 'local' edit prior to doing a save, you can set up retrys if the initial save fails, without losing any data.

Thanks again,
Kevin