In .Net, can I marshall a composite type across a web service?

You can pass and return composite types across Web services, but by default the web service returns to the client application a flattened, properties-only version of the composite type, except in the case of ADO.NET Datasets.

Say you have created a custom class with properties that you marshall via a web service. When you make a web reference (in the client app.) to the Web service, Visual Studio generates a proxy class for your custom class, based on the description available in the WSDL of the Web Service.

When you explore the proxy class code, you will notice that your generated proxy class exposes our properties as fields, not properties. Hence you what you get back is a more flattened out version of your custom type.

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