Returning a struct from a class method

[Morten]

Hi!

I'm building a web service with the purpose of administering the IIS service
on one of our servers. I'm trying to implement a method that can return
sites and their host headers. What I have so far is listed at the end of
this message. I'm using a struct to return some XML that can hold the
information that is returned. I'd like to put most of the content of the
"ListItems" method in a separate class file but I'm unable to figure out how
to write my code so that I get the struct returned - first to the WebMethod
and subsequently to the webservice. If I manage to get it sent to my web
service I'm also uncertain how to consume this information in my web
application... Strings are much simpler but I guess this is the right
approach?

Help is appreciated!!

Morten

public struct IISData
{
public String Name;
public System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection ID;
}

[WebMethod]
public IISData[] ListItems()
{
int Number = GetNoOfSites();
IISData [] IISSites = null;
IISSites = new IISData[Number];
for (int i = 0; i < Number; i++)
{
DirectoryEntry root = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/W3SVC");
foreach(DirectoryEntry direntry in root.Children)
{
if(direntry.SchemaClassName == "IIsWebServer")
{
string SiteName = (string) direntry.Invoke("Get", "ServerComment");
IISSites[i].Name = SiteName;
IISSites[i].ID = new
System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection();
PropertyValueCollection pvc = direntry.Properties["ServerBindings"];
foreach (string header in pvc)
{
IISSites[i].ID.Add(header);
}
}
}
}
return IISSites;
}

public int GetNoOfSites()
{
int Number = 0;
DirectoryEntry root1 = new DirectoryEntry("IIS://localhost/W3SVC");
foreach(DirectoryEntry direntry1 in root1.Children)
{
if(direntry1.SchemaClassName == "IIsWebServer")
Number++;
}
return Number;
}