I believe this has to do with the fact that there are a number of controls that simply cannot be used with UpdatePanel control The following ASP.NET controls are not compatible with partial-page updates, and are therefore not supported inside an UpdatePanel control: * TreeView and Menu controls. * Web Parts controls. For more information, see ASP.NET Web Parts Controls. * FileUpload controls when they are used to upload files as part of an asynchronous postback. * GridView and DetailsView controls when their EnableSortingAndPagingCallbacks property is set to true. The default is false. * Login, PasswordRecovery, ChangePassword, and CreateUserWizard controls whose contents have not been converted to editable templates. * The Substitution control. * Validation controls, which includes the BaseCompareValidator, BaseValidator, CompareValidator, CustomValidator, RangeValidator, RegularExpressionValidator, RequiredFieldValidator, and ValidationSummary control. See this for details

okay I will post it on there. Feel free to remove this one.

After a very quick look at your example I believe you need: Dim Person As New localhost.Simple Dim Proxy As localhost.Service Person = Proxy.Returnnames(Person) instead of Dim Person As New Eurofins.Simple Dim Proxy As localhost.Service Person = Proxy.Returnnames(Person) My thought on this being that a proxy class of type 'Simple' should have been created when you made a reference to the webservice. These generated proxy classes are marked up with alot of Soap attributes that make everything work. If you are referencing another class with the name of Simple instead of the generated proxy class I can understand why you would get errors because localhost.Service is expecting a class within it's namespace. You can actually navigate to the proxy class code through the object browser if you double click on the web reference. Also it is possible to do this without a web reference and create your own proxy class (or the gerated one and modify it) if that is what you want or need. Here's a sample from my code using xml serialization, actual classes not included. private UserInformation GetUserInfoFromWebService(Uri ServiceUri) { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ServiceUri); request.Method="GET"; request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; request.ContentType="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse(); XmlSerializer UserInfoSerializer= new XmlSerializer(typeof(UserInformation),"http://localhost/UserServices/"); Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream(); StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(responseStream); UserInformation UserInfo = (UserInformation)UserInfoSerializer.Deserialize(responseReader); responseStream.Close(); response.Close(); return UserInfo; } Hope this helps. -- modified at 11:12 Monday 21st May, 2007 -- modified at 11:14 Monday 21st May, 2007 topcoderjax

The webreference appears as a folder with 3 files inside none of which have an option to view in object browser on right click.

You could extend the DataReader class with and override the ToString method to HTMLEncode everything.

Try this one: http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/lili2.asp It helped me ;-)

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That depends. You can not access the gridview itself, as that does only exist on the server. You might be able to extract values from the html code that the gridview creates. --- It's amazing to see how much work some people will go through just to avoid a little bit of work.

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