which way to return struc from webservice?

[cj2]

Which function shows the proper way to return this structure
Validate, Validate2, or Validate3? And a short why would be nice.

Public Class Validate
Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService

Public Structure ValResult
Dim mResponse As String
Dim mReason As String
End Structure

<WebMethod()_
Public Function Validate(ByVal ibtn As String, ByVal irequestor As
String)
Dim thisResult As New ValResult
thisResult.mResponse = "ALLOW"
thisResult.mReason = "Good"
Return thisResult
End Function

<WebMethod()_
Public Function Validate2(ByVal ibtn As String, ByVal
irequestor As String) As ValResult
Validate2.mResponse = "ALLOW"
Validate2.mReason = "Good"
Return Validate2
End Function

<WebMethod()_
Public Function Validate3(ByVal ibtn As String, ByVal irequestor As
String) As ValResult
Dim thisResult As New ValResult
thisResult.mResponse = "ALLOW"
thisResult.mReason = "Good"
Return thisResult
End Function
End Class

[Family Tree Mike]

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Which function shows the proper way to return this structure
Validate, Validate2, or Validate3? And a short why would be nice.

Public Class Validate
Inherits System.Web.Services.WebService

Public Structure ValResult
Dim mResponse As String
Dim mReason As String
End Structure

<WebMethod()_
Public Function Validate(ByVal ibtn As String, ByVal irequestor As
String)
Dim thisResult As New ValResult
thisResult.mResponse = "ALLOW"
thisResult.mReason = "Good"
Return thisResult
End Function

<WebMethod()_
Public Function Validate2(ByVal ibtn As String, ByVal irequestor
As String) As ValResult
Validate2.mResponse = "ALLOW"
Validate2.mReason = "Good"
Return Validate2
End Function

<WebMethod()_
Public Function Validate3(ByVal ibtn As String, ByVal irequestor As
String) As ValResult
Dim thisResult As New ValResult
thisResult.mResponse = "ALLOW"
thisResult.mReason = "Good"
Return thisResult
End Function
End Class

Validate3 is my choice, because I hate the other two.

Validate does not convey a return type. Validate2 does the work in a very
vb6 way in that the function name is treated as the return variable.