Professional design advice needed

[mazdotnet]

Hi,

We have an events page in our company that's database driven and we
need to shared it with our partners. They need to pull information
from our site. They can be running asp, php, .jsp..etc. I was
thinking
of using a web services and returning datatable (maybe to XML). Is
that the best approach? Or should I just take it as a Url parameter
and return an XML file? Any suggestions here would really help me.


I really appreciate your input on this.


Thanks

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Hi,

We have an events page in our company that's database driven and we
need to shared it with our partners. They need to pull information
from our site. They can be running asp, php, .jsp..etc. I was
thinking
of using a web services and returning datatable (maybe to XML). Is
that the best approach? Or should I just take it as a Url parameter
and return an XML file? Any suggestions here would really help me.

You give them a XML Document and let them save it to a file with their Web
service client application that contacts your Web service application. You
might even write and give them a Web Service Client Console Application that
makes the contact with the Web service and does the file save, which they
can run when they need to run it. Or you can use the Web Client application
to test your site.

http://my.execpc.com/~gopalan/dotnet/webservices/webservice_csharp_client.html