Randy,
If you return a string, you can be assured that the complete string will
be returned.
Also, if you want to return a DataSet (since you seem to be going
against a database), you can do that, and the web service will wire it up
correctly for you.
Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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"Randy" <temp@temp.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have a web service in which I'm doing a query to an Access database and
> returning the resulting XML data when I do the return from the service...
> public string AOS_Data(string sql)
> {
> CDFDBSoapService.DBWebService dbws = new[/color]
CDFDBSoapService.DBWebService();[color=blue]
> Do the connection stuff here...
> return dbws.queryDatabase(sql);
> }
>
> This all works fine. I was thinking about doing the query and returning[/color]
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> results into a string and then returning that string like...
> public string AOS_Data(string sql)
> {
> CDFDBSoapService.DBWebService dbws = new[/color]
CDFDBSoapService.DBWebService();[color=blue]
> Do the connection stuff here...
> string buffer = dbws.queryDatabase(sql);
> return buffer;
> }
>
> I'm not sure what the length of buffer (above) would be so I'm not sure if
> all the data would get returned. When you do a...
> string buffer = dbws.queryDatabase(sql);
> Does this make buffer as long as it needs to be to handle the returning[/color]
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> in the query, or is there a finite length?
> Thanks all...
>
> Cheers :)
>
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