Kevin,

I think it's some form of XML ... IOW, I think it's text not binary.

~~Bonnie


>First, thanks to everyone (Jim, Bonnie, David, etc.) for helping me to understand .NET remoting.
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>Follow-up question...this may have been answered yesterday, but I want to make sure...
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>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?
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>Reason I ask is because some firewalls may not allow the dataset to come through if it is binary.
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>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.
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>Thanks,
>Kevin