Viv,

>>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. <

Yes, that's the way it works for a .NET client. I messed with WebServices with VFP only a few times and that was more than two years ago. I don't remember much, but wouldn't a VFP client work the same way? Or was that the reason for this thread to begin with?

~~Bonnie