Problem in defining web service method which returns Hashtable

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Hi,
I have a web service method which needs to return a hashtable.But it
gives errror as,

The type System.Collections.Hashtable is not supported because it implements
IDictionary.

Is there any way to return hashtable through a web method other than
implementing the IDictionary?
Please do tell me if any one knows.
 
I think I remember they found a way to serialize HT in 2.0. Until then, you
could just implement a simple class with two public fields, a string for the
key and your type as the value. Then just return an array of that class
(after you fill it from the hashtable). I am thinking about WSE web methods
here. Not sure this will work with IIS web methods.
 
William Stacey said:
I think I remember they found a way to serialize HT in 2.0. Until then, you
could just implement a simple class with two public fields, a string for the
key and your type as the value. Then just return an array of that class
(after you fill it from the hashtable). I am thinking about WSE web methods
here. Not sure this will work with IIS web methods.
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Will WSE make any differences to the return type of the webmethod William?,
I mean if it works with WSE theoritically it should work with normal
webmethod...
 
I would say "should" as I have been using WSE mostly and forgot if custom
types and arrays of types return ok with std web services. Easy to hack up
a quick test to know for sure.

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William Stacey, MVP
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Champika Nirosh said:
William Stacey said:
I think I remember they found a way to serialize HT in 2.0. Until then, you
could just implement a simple class with two public fields, a string for the
key and your type as the value. Then just return an array of that class
(after you fill it from the hashtable). I am thinking about WSE web methods
here. Not sure this will work with IIS web methods.
Click to expand...

Will WSE make any differences to the return type of the webmethod William?,
I mean if it works with WSE theoritically it should work with normal
webmethod...

Click to expand...
 
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