First, thanks to everyone (Jim, Bonnie, David, etc.) for helping me to understand .NET remoting.

Follow-up question...this may have been answered yesterday, but I want to make sure...

If a Winform running on the client end passes a dataset to a Web Service (which in turn passes it to the middle-tier), is the dataset XML when it gets to the Web Service, or do we have to do a serialization/deserialization along the way?

Reason I ask is because some firewalls may not allow the dataset to come through if it is binary.

So we need to find out if the dataset coming up from the winform to the web service is indeed XML. If not, I guess we'd have to write a set of functions to convert back and forth. Currently, our functions physically pass datasets as parameters, and receive datasets on return from functions.


Thanks,
Kevin