Question

I am invoking a web service function which is reading a users credentials from a database,

when invoked straight from the web service based on entering a ‘search’ integer, the response is –

<firstName>john</firstName>
<lastName>smith</lastName>
<sex>male</sex>
<age>23</age>
<search>100</search>

I am trying to get the results back to the client in a richTextBox I thought by doing this-

        WebService.Service1SoapClient client = new WebService.Service1SoapClient();
        int search= System.Convert.ToInt16(textBox1.Text);
        string result = client.searchUser(search);
        richTextBox1.AppendText(result);

However this is not working.

Answer 1

From your comments,

string result = client.searchUser(search);

you are trying to assign at structure to a string. That’s the error and compiler is telling you that you can’t do this.

You should override ToString() method in your structure like,

public override string ToString()
{
   // construct the string here which you want to assign
}

and at your client side

string result = client.searchUser(search).ToString();

Hopefully it will help.