Complex Data types

[Jerod Hatley]

Can someone point me to a good document on creating and passing complex
datatypes to and from a web service?

I would like to pass a master / detail object. The object would hold the
master information and an array of the detail information. This sounds like a
reasonable thing to do but can find little information on the subject.
Perhaps I am calling it the wrong thing?

Help is much appreciated.

Thanks

[Peter Kelcey]

Jerod,

One thing I'd recommend looking at is using a dataset. Datasets can be
used to manage your parent/child (master/detail) retailionships and can
easily be sent via asp.net web services.

Consuming a dataset via a webservice
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...webservice.asp

Information on datarelations objects in ADO.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...trelations.asp

Peter Kelcey

[Jerod Hatley]

I appreciate the reply.
I have considered the dataset but I am not sure it is the best approach for
what I want to do.
I would like to declare a Complex data type on the web server, and use that
type as an argument in the web method.
maybe a public strongly typed dataset would work if that is possible.

"Peter Kelcey" wrote:

Jerod,

One thing I'd recommend looking at is using a dataset. Datasets can be
used to manage your parent/child (master/detail) retailionships and can
easily be sent via asp.net web services.

Consuming a dataset via a webservice
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...webservice.asp

Information on datarelations objects in ADO.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...trelations.asp

Peter Kelcey