Re: Big-Picture Question (Web Services, RegNow)

Hi,

Jonathan Wood wrote:
Thanks for the input. I'm contacting RegNow to see why this is not an option.

BTW, does anyone know of a way to return multiple fields from a Web service? I'm only able to see how to return a single field (the function's return value).

Thanks.

The constraints for web methods are exactly the same as for "normal" methods: One return value only, but it can be anything including array (if you have many "fields" of the same type), or an object including different properties.

All public properties/attributes of the returned object will be serialized and transmitted.

However, if you can, I recommend to keep it simple. First you'll avoid serialization problems, and second, remember that web services clients are not only C#, but could be anything, including JavaScript (it's quite easy to make a web service call using JavaScript). For example, instead of transmitting a DateTime object, why not transmit a string representation of that DateTime... you get the idea.

HTH,
Laurent
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