ASP.NET 2.0 Webservice cannot be consumed...

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Neil Young

Hello,

an ASP.NET 2.0 webservice cannot be consumed by Access/Excel 2003, if
the webservice uses the new nullable datatypes. Is there an update for
the Office 2003 Webservice Toolkit 2.01 available, which deals with
that types correctly?

Regards
 
Searches at www.microsoft.com and http://msdn.microsoft.com didn't turn up
any version later than 2.01, so I'm afraid the answer would appear to be
'no'.

The only solution that comes to mind is to write a 'wrapper' service that
calls the problem service then transforms the result into something that
Office will understand.
 
Hello Brendan,

I feared this... Thanks for the suggestion, although this is not really
an option. The major reason for using ASP.NET 2.0 webservice for this
was the availability of nullable datatypes. This makes database
updates/insert very smart and easy to handle. Providing a 1.1 service
in front of Access or Excel would not help out here.

I tried various "NullableTypes" class libs available for 1.1 with no
luck too...

Regards
 
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