We are developing n-tier system, In this system, most of the time, datasets are the main data container that will be transferred between the presentation layer and business layer.
And since we are planning to implement a major part of the business layer as BizTalk orchestrations, we want to figure out how can we populate DataSets and process them inside an orchestration and output them back to the caller whether it was another orchestration, web service client or .NET code (if possible).

Is this possible?

I'm certainly not a BizTalk expert yet.. however I'd say that this isn't possible as a dataset... Biztalk works, behind the scenes, with XML- You map data into a schema... work with it.. and then map it back out.

I guess it depends on if there's a way to map from a DataSet to a schema...

Hal Levy
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