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December 19th, 2005, 11:30 AM

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can the webservice return a file?

i want to return an xml file in webmethod
how can i do that?
if anyone know please tell me.
thanks

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December 19th, 2005, 11:59 AM

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You could return the XML as a string then make it back into a file or return the binary data of the file as a byte array. Also, I suppose you could load the XML into a XML document object, and make that the return type of the webservice method.

-Peter

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