Hi all

Can anyone point me to an article or something similar which will show
me how to do the following

1) Webservice creates some object instances
2) Webservice creates some XML which looks like DataSet data
3) Client can then take the data and edit within a DataSet

The objects on the server cannot have a parameterless constructor, so I
can't make them [Serializable] (there are other reasons too). So I'd
like to have the client work with datasets instead.

Thanks


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My book has a very indepth explanation of WebServices and Datasets et.al.

You can get it from here -
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"Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
>
> Can anyone point me to an article or something similar which will show me
> how to do the following
>
> 1) Webservice creates some object instances
> 2) Webservice creates some XML which looks like DataSet data
> 3) Client can then take the data and edit within a DataSet
>
> The objects on the server cannot have a parameterless constructor, so I
> can't make them [Serializable] (there are other reasons too). So I'd like
> to have the client work with datasets instead.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Pete
> ====
> Read or write articles on just about anything
> http://www.HowToDoThings.com
>
> My blog
> http://blogs.slcdug.org/petermorris/

Pete,

In order for your Web Service to return XML, all you have to do is return
the XML from the DataSet.GetXML() method.

Then, client-side, you'd do this:

StringReader sr = new StringReader(XML);
MyDataSet.ReadXml(sr, XmlReadMode.InferSchema);
MyDataSet.AcceptChanges();

~~Bonnie




"Peter Morris [Droopy eyes software]" wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Can anyone point me to an article or something similar which will show
> me how to do the following
>
> 1) Webservice creates some object instances
> 2) Webservice creates some XML which looks like DataSet data
> 3) Client can then take the data and edit within a DataSet
>
> The objects on the server cannot have a parameterless constructor, so I
> can't make them [Serializable] (there are other reasons too). So I'd
> like to have the client work with datasets instead.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Pete
> ====
> Read or write articles on just about anything
> http://www.HowToDoThings.com
>
> My blog
> http://blogs.slcdug.org/petermorris/
>