Why cant I serailize a datarow?

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Im getting frustrated with .NET 2005 Who at MS decideded that a web service
could not accept a DataRow as an input or reference veriable? If the results
your passing to a web service only contain a single row of data, why in the
world would you want to pass an entire dataset for one row. Seems like a
waste of network traffic.

Anywho, Ive heard this is now possible with 2.0 framework, but I havent be
able to get it to work. Has anyone been able to use DataRow or DataTable in
C# as a Ws parameter?

thx for letting me vent
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JP
..NET Software Developer

[John Saunders [MVP]]

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Im getting frustrated with .NET 2005 Who at MS decideded that a web
service
could not accept a DataRow as an input or reference veriable? If the
results
your passing to a web service only contain a single row of data, why in
the
world would you want to pass an entire dataset for one row. Seems like a
waste of network traffic.

JP, the only constructor for DataRow is "protected internal". That means
that neither you, nor the serialization code, can create a DataRow.

In general, you should try not to use .NET-specific types in web services.
Even if all of your clients today are based on .NET, that may not always be
the case.
--
John Saunders [MVP]