Serializing Complex Objects in Web Services

[JEB]

I have an object that wrote the serialization for to use with Remoting and
now I would like to use it with Web Services. The object consist of a short
and a string value (lets call it Item). This object is then contained in an
array that constains at string (lets call it Column). Then this object is
stored in an array as well (lets call it Row). So, I have the following
setup:

(The Hierarchy)
Row
--> Column
-----> Item

When I do the WSDL on the Web Service to generate the proxy. I get [][]Item
and it ignores the Row and Column object. How can I explicitly serialize the
hierarchy? Any help or links to understanding Xml Serialization or SOAP
serialization is appreciated.

[DC]

Sorry, I don't get it. Can you show us some code?

what does the type look like?
what is the method signature?

-Dino
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I have an object that wrote the serialization for to use with Remoting and
now I would like to use it with Web Services. The object consist of a
short
and a string value (lets call it Item). This object is then contained in
an
array that constains at string (lets call it Column). Then this object is
stored in an array as well (lets call it Row). So, I have the following
setup:

(The Hierarchy)
Row
--> Column
-----> Item

When I do the WSDL on the Web Service to generate the proxy. I get
[][]Item
and it ignores the Row and Column object. How can I explicitly serialize
the
hierarchy? Any help or links to understanding Xml Serialization or SOAP
serialization is appreciated.

[JEB]

FYI - I found the answer here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/is...s/default.aspx

What I had to do is make the top-most array serialize itself and ALL of its
contents and it works. I also had to define an XSD schema after implementing
the IXmlSerializable interface.

Thanks,
JEB

"JEB" wrote:

I have an object that wrote the serialization for to use with Remoting and
now I would like to use it with Web Services. The object consist of a short
and a string value (lets call it Item). This object is then contained in an
array that constains at string (lets call it Column). Then this object is
stored in an array as well (lets call it Row). So, I have the following
setup:

(The Hierarchy)
Row
--> Column
-----> Item

When I do the WSDL on the Web Service to generate the proxy. I get [][]Item
and it ignores the Row and Column object. How can I explicitly serialize the
hierarchy? Any help or links to understanding Xml Serialization or SOAP
serialization is appreciated.