Basic Webservice Question

[jnc]

Hi As you can tell I'm a newbie to dotnet and webservices.

I need to create a webservice to return a list a computers on my
network, I have the code to generate the list of computers but was
wondering if anyone had any advice on what the return type of the
function should be. I want to return type that is farily easy to
consume ( I was thinking of using a dataset) has anyone got any
thoughts on this?

Cheers....Jim

[John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)]

You can create datasets on the fly, so you can populate it as you wish from
your "computers" code. My first choice would be to use a dataset as it
binds to most controls, and experience has shown it to be easy to consume in
web service clients.

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Regards

John Timney (Microsoft ASP.NET MVP)
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Hi As you can tell I'm a newbie to dotnet and webservices.

I need to create a webservice to return a list a computers on my
network, I have the code to generate the list of computers but was
wondering if anyone had any advice on what the return type of the
function should be. I want to return type that is farily easy to
consume ( I was thinking of using a dataset) has anyone got any
thoughts on this?

Cheers....Jim