Hi,

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Why wouldn't that be useful in a WebService? It's as useful as it is for any other method where you need to return more than one piece of information that the calling program needs.
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Ah, I've never used .NET on the client side of a web service - does it automatically update the variable which was passed in as a 'byRef' parameter with the returned value? If so then I can see you've got a reasonable emulation of passing by reference. Otherwise, as you say it may be 'as good as' any other method but I don't see that it's any better - just more work getting it out of the SOAP message.

Regards,
Viv